Along path of totality, eclipse watchers left in darkness
Throngs of skywatchers across North America gazed upward at a blackened sun in the midday dusk, celebrating the first total solar eclipse to darken the continent in seven years
Spectators watch the total solar eclipse at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mykal McEldowney/USA Today Network
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The Statue of Liberty is seen during a partial solar eclipse, where the moon partially blocks out the sun, at Liberty Island in New York City. Reuter/David Dee Delgado
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A view from the special Delta Airlines eclipse flight during the solar eclipse over the skies of the US Reuters/Leonardo Benassatto
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Anthony Longoria of Atascosa, Texas, observing the peak totality of the solar eclipse next to the Nueces River at Chalk Bluff, in Uvalde, Texas. Reuters /Adrees Latif
An airplane passes near the total solar eclipse during the Hoosier Cosmic Celebration at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. Bobby Goddin/USA Today Network
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People view the total solar eclipse at Niagara Falls, New York. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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People view a partial solar eclipse from Times Square in New York City. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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People look out towards Lake Erie and the horizon during a total solar eclipse under cloudy conditions seen from Dunkirk Lighthouse & Veterans Park Museum in Dunkirk, New York. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Megan McBride watches as the solar eclipse reaches totality before taking part in a Choctaw Nation tradition of using noisemakers to scare away the "Fvni Lusa", or black squirrel, from eating the sun at Wheelock Academy in Millerton, Oklahoma. REUTERS/Leah Millis
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A total solar eclipse passes over with Eclipse Island seen in the background in Burgeo, Newfoundland, Canada. REUTERS/Greg Locke