That is little spot at the edge on the sun at the edge of the moon is not a smudge on the lens, but literally a sunspot. My buddy John S. took that picture and sent it to me. Lorena and I spent a couple of hours just enjoying the whole event. We had seen a 95% eclipse when we lived in Washington state, but this was a whole different category of thing. The temperature dropped ten degrees and it got way, way darker than the 95% eclipse. I might be game to travel to see the one in Spain next year or the year after. The image below is what it looked like when the eclipse was at totality.
