About 16% of the U.S. witnessed a total eclipse, which lasted longest at Carbondale, Illinois, for 2 minutes and 41.6 seconds.
The solar eclipse creates the effect of a diamond ring at totality as seen from Clingmans Dome, which at 6,643 feet (2,025m) is the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee.
It began at the Oregon coast (at 9.36 p.m. IST) and ended at the South Carolina coast (at a time that corresponds to 1.36 a.m. IST).
Since this eclipse had the special feature of lasting for so long over the mainland, scientists across the world were trying to use it to verify their theories on the Sun.
According to NASA, more than 6,800 libraries across U.S. distributed safety-certified glasses to watch eclipse. Here, U.S. President Donald Trump and Melania Trump seen watching the solar eclipse from the White House in Washington.
Clouds roll passed the sun at 2:42 p.m., two minutes past the peak of the solar eclipse in Graham.
Scientists used the eclipse to study “space weather” and predict solar storms that can affect the operation of satellites and even electric power grids on Earth.
Scientists at the Centre for Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) in the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata were studying the eclipse using computer simulations. Here, a partial solar eclipse appears over the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York.