DALLAS — At 1:40 p.m. on Monday, April 8, North Texans -- plus the hundreds of thousands of out-of-state visitors who descended upon the region -- got to view the once-in-a-lifetime celestial event that is a total solar eclipse.
With the weather (perhaps surprisingly) cooperating, sky-gazers were treated to four minutes (more or less, depending on where you were in the Metroplex) of dusk, temperature drops and the sun's corona being visible to the naked eye.
It very much was a special moment of collective effervescence -- and, unfortunately, one we in North Texas won't experience again until 2317.
The good news, though, is that this experience wasn't completely unique to Dallas-Fort Worth. People all across the United States gathered over the course of the eclipse's sprint across the country on Monday to view it.
Here's what the experience looked like all across the country.