Mainers and folks of all kinds flocked to a number of towns in the path of totality Monday to experience the total solar eclipse.
Route 6 out of Greenville is awash with cars less than 15 minutes after the end of eclipse totality on Monday. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Lan Bui of Philadelphia (right) lends Sharon Duffield of Falmouth a sun filter so she can take a photo of the solar eclipse in Greenville on Monday.
Still awed by the eclipse, Marlene Devandian (left, holding furry friend Maeve) and Denise Nugent of Ogunquit chat with friends Steven, Gary and Deb Riggott of Walpole, Massachusetts. Long after Riverside Park in Presque Isle had emptied, the group stayed to enjoy the park. Credit: Paula Brewer / The Star Herald
The solar eclipse is pictured here from the former Loring Air Force Base’s arch hangar in Limestone. Roughly 1,500 people from Maine and beyond attended the Limestone eclipse viewing event on Monday. Chris Bouchard / St. John Valley Times
Raphael Okutoro of Bangor watches the eclipse from the Greenville waterfront on Monday, April 8, 2024. Credit: Troy R. Bennett/ BDN
More than 1,500 people from Maine and beyond came to view the Monday eclipse at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone. Credit: Chris Bouchard / St. John Valley Times
Seeing 100 percent totality was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that thousands of people came to Maine to experience. The event left an impression as people across the state raised their eyes, covered by eclipse glasses, and cameras to witness totality.
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Charlie Sawyer, who started Downeast Amateur Astronomers in 1997, talks to a child as she peers into a telescope at Veterans Memorial Park in Millinocket on Monday. (Valerie Royzman | BDN)
Jenny Anderson (right) and her son, Oscar, try out their eclipse glasses at the Francis Malcolm Science Center in Easton on April 8. Credit: Paula Brewer / The Star Herald
One group of eclipse watchers sets up at the edge of the woods on the grounds of Easton’s Francis Malcolm Science Center. Credit: Paula Brewer / The Star Herald
A man wears a pair of eclipse glasses while holding another over his smartphone lens as the eclipse starts at the Francis Malcolm Science Center in Easton. Credit: Paula Brewer / The Star Herald
A person photographs the total solar eclipse in Greenville on Monday, April 8, 2024, from atop a snowbank. Venus is also visible. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Jim Marshall and son Joseph Marshall of Pennsylvania watch the moon blot out the sun during a total solar eclipse in Greenville on Monday, April 8, 2024. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Eight-year-old Logan Garde of Hadley, Massachusetts, looks up at the eclipse after totality with his grandmother, Patricia Deschamps of Kittery, Maine. Credit: Melissa Lizotte / Houlton Pioneer Times
Some people arrived to eclipse viewing hotspots like Houlton, Millinocket and Greenville over the weekend. By Monday afternoon, an estimated crowd of 4,000 had showed up in downtown Houlton, filling up most of the available parking.
Ron Retamales of New Jersey tests the safety filter on his camera while getting ready to take pictures of the total solar eclipse in Greenville on April 8, 2024. Retamales said he had to be at work in Pennsylvania first thing in the morning on Tuesday. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
A steady stream of cars pulls into downtown Greenville on Monday morning, April 8, 2024, many full of people looking for a spot to watch the total solar eclipse. By 11 a.m. downtown street parking spots were all full. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
With a steady stream of cars pulling into downtown Greenville on Monday morning, April 8, 2024, enterprising locals were selling parking spots for $50 per car. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Sisters (from left) Charlotte Coffin, 10, Ava Coffin, 3, and Carter Coffin, 8, take part in a solar eclipse-themed costume contest at Mud Puddle Mercantile in Greenville on Sunday, April 7, 2024. Chloe Baker stands behind them, dressed as the sun, sporting eclipse glasses which were free with every purchase at the store. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Timber Stephenson of Cape Cod, and his dogs Shelby Rose and Sadie Mae, are camping in the woods near Greenville this week to be on hand for Monday’s eclipse. Stephenson said he came a week early to beat the crowds. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Shannon Rice passes her Blue Moon in front of her husband Mike Rice’s Corona to create their own beer eclipse Monday in Houlton where the couple drove from Worcester, Massachusetts to watch the total eclipse. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
People leaving eclipse viewing parties flooded back onto main roads shortly after the event’s totality. Roads are expected to be congested throughout the afternoon.
Michael Unanue of Cape Elizabeth soaks up the sun in the Walmart parking lot in Houlton, where he and his family camped Sunday night, to see the total eclipse on Monday. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
A homemade sunshade is displayed in the windshield of a vehicle parked at the Walmart in Houlton where people have gathered for the eclipse. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Matt Stultz of Bath sets up his telescope in Houlton before the total eclipse on Monday. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
April Rivera from Boston and her Old English Mastiffs Vixen and Bailey (background) hang out at their RV on Monday where she had camped with family and friends in the parking lot of the Houlton Walmart to watch the eclipse. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Campers and day trippers gather in the parking lot of the Walmart in Houlton to watch the eclipse. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Albert Mach from West Virginia talks to his wife after setting up cameras and a telescope in the parking lot of Walmart in Houlton on Monday morning. Mach, who will be photographing his second total eclipse, was one of many campers and spectators to set up shop at the store. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Johanna Lopez from Boston shows off the Houlton-opoly game she bought in the Houlton Walmart, where she and friends were camping for the eclipse. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
After camping in their truck Sunday night, David and Dana of Auburn drink coffee and read on a dirt road near the Houlton International Airport while waiting for the eclipse Monday. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Campers and day trippers gather in the parking lot of the Walmart in Houlton to watch the eclipse. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
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