‘A wonderful shared human experience': San Diegans capture partial solar eclipse

Here are some of your photos of the partial total solar eclipse as seen from San Diego

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The excitement level for the eclipse reached totality in San Diego, NBC 7’s Omari Fleming reports.

While people across the U.S. experienced total darkness Monday from a total solar eclipse, San Diegans took in a partial view of the astrological event.

San Diego County was one of the best places in California to experience the event with 55% of the sun obscured by the moon. Another total solar eclipse won't be visible from the contiguous U.S. until Aug. 23, 2044.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Fleet Science Center Monday to witness the moon cross between the sun and the Earth. The fleet's resident Astronomer Dr. Lisa Will said part of the appeal of these eclipses is experiencing them together.

Eclipses "allow us to study the outer atmosphere of the sun more, but I also think it's just a wonderful shared human experience, too," Will said.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Fleet Science Center Monday to witness the moon cross between the sun and the Earth, NBC 7's Audra Stafford reports.

Here are some of your photos of the partial total solar eclipse as seen from San Diego.


Jay Beiler shared a view of the solar eclipse from a North Park, San Diego balcony. (Jay Beiler)

Lewis Norman used a compact mirror to reflect the eclipse onto the trunk of a tree (Lewis Norman)
A crowd gathers at the Fleet Science Center in San Diego to see the partial total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. (NBC 7/Audra Stafford)


The partial solar eclipse is seen from the NBC 7 building. (NBC 7/Mike Dorfman)

San Diego resident and astronomer Jim Priest traveled to Eagle Pass, TX to witness the total solar eclipse.
San Diego resident and astronomer Jim Priest traveled to Eagle Pass, TX to witness the total solar eclipse.
A plane crosses the path of the eclipse.
A man and his dog gaze up at the partial solar eclipse in Balboa Park on April 8, 2024. (Jailyn Osborne)
The eclipse — as seen through a colander on April 8, 2024. (Michael Fischer)
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