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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

Anthony Longoria, of Atascosa, Texas, is lit by a fire while observing the peak totality of the solar eclipse next to the Nueces River at Chalk Bluff, in Uvalde, Texas. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

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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

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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

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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

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