Photograph by Babak Tafreshi
Aboard the plane following the eclipse's shadow, Tafreshi captures a passenger peering at the pale ring of the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona.
Photograph by Babak Tafreshi
The 361 residents of Oceanside, Oregon were among the first to see the eclipse. The last eclipse to cross the entire country was in 1918.
Photograph by Randy Olson
People gather to watch the eclipse just outside of Jackson, Wyoming, where totality lasted for just over two minutes at 11:35 a.m.
Photograph by Charlie Hamilton James
Though photographers should use solar filters on their cameras when documenting partial phases, an unfiltered telephoto lens can safely capture totality.
Photograph by Jimmy Chin
"It was cloudy this morning," says photographer Randy Olson of this shot taken from Oceanside. "Our cliff was the only place in the county above the fog."
Photograph by Randy Olson
People gather to watch the eclipse in Dillard, Georgia.
Photograph by Peter Essick
The sun's first rays emerge from behind the moon, while the corona is still visible, as totality passes over Jackson, Wyoming.
Photograph by Charlie Hamilton James
A woman wears a welding mask to protect her eyes while watching the partial eclipse from Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Photograph by Katie Orlinksy
The sky darkens just after 10 a.m. as a crowd watches totality on a bluff overlooking Madras, Oregon.
Photograph by Aaron Huey
The eclipse as seen from Cross, South Carolina, along the path of totality.
Photograph by Kirsten Luce
Wilfred and Audrey DeVries try to watch the eclipse through cloudy skies along with others who pulled off a road in Beatrice, Nebraska.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
The eclipse nearing totality in Jackson, Wyoming.
Photograph by Ronan Donovan
A family from Copenhagen, Denmark, watches the eclipse in Cross, South Carolina, along Lake Marion.
Photograph by Kirsten Luce
The skies were cloudy Sewanee, Tennessee about 20 miles from the path of totality.
Photograph by Stephen Alvarez
A compilation image of the phases of the eclipse over the Teton Range.
Editor’s Note: This image is a composite of two photographs: a multiple-exposure photo of the eclipse and a photo of the Tetons.
Photograph by Ken Geiger