(KRON) — The path of totality for Monday’s lunar eclipse skipped California, where only a partial eclipse graced the sky. Sky gazers who saw the full celestial spectacle were on Mexico’s Pacific coast, Texas, the North Atlantic, and Canada’s Atlantic coast within a 115-mile-wide path.
NASA explained, “A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun.”
The next coast-to-coast eclipse will not happen for another 21 years. NASA scientists and Getty photographers captured images looking up from the path of totality. See some of the best images shot Monday below:
In this digital composite image, a view of the evolution of the total solar eclipse is seen from a beach in Mazatlan, Mexico on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Miguel Martínez Corona/ ObturadorMX/ Getty Images)A view of a total solar eclipse seen from Mazatlan, Sinaloa state, Mexico on April 8, 2024. (Photo by RASHIDE FRIAS/AFP via Getty Images)The “diamond ring” effect is seen during a total solar eclipse in Magog, Quebec, Canada, on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Stan Honda / AFP) (Photo by STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)The “diamond ring” effect is seen during a total solar eclipse in Magog, Quebec, Canada, on April 8, 2024. (Photo by STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)In this composite image by NASA, the Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun, with the top of the Washington Monument in silhouette, during a partial solar eclipse April 8, 2024 in in Washington, DC. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA)The sun and the moon align together completely during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Totality lasted almost four minutes in Ohio. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)In this composite of seven photographs, the moon passes by the sun during a total solar eclipse in Bloomington, Indiana, on April 8, 2024. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)The moon begins to eclipse the sun during the total solar eclipse in Mazatlan, Sinaloa state, Mexico on April 8, 2024. (Photo by RASHIDE FRIAS/AFP via Getty Images)In this composite of eight photographs, the moon passes by the sun into totality and away again during a total solar eclipse in Bloomington, Indiana, on April 8, 2024. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)
