We had a lovely sunny afternoon at Cypress College (Cypress, Calif.) where my husband teaches astronomy. He and the kids in the astronomy club set up three 8-inch Meade telescopes with solar filters and two solar telescopes, as well as a "Sun Spotter", which projects an image onto a white card. (The solar telescopes have built-in hydrogen-alpha filters which narrows the wavelengths visible such that you can see a lot of detail on the sun's surface. The filters on the regular scopes basically just greatly reduce the quantity of white light that gets through.) We had a good crowd of kids, faculty, staff, and relatives through the afternoon for the viewing.

Here's a cool video from NASA with a lot more detail than we saw: clicky.

~ Becky in Long Beach