Bay Staters grabbed their special glasses and looked up to the clear skies Monday afternoon, as they enjoyed the thrill of a solar eclipse.
Massachusetts wasn’t in the path of totality like in northern New England, but those in the Boston-area still had a stellar view of the cosmic spectacle — as the moon passed between the Earth and sun.
Many traveled north for the total solar eclipse, including Herald city editor Todd Prussman who went up to the Canadian border in Vermont. He got to see the mesmerizing “diamond ring” effect, and captured the moon making its final move over the sun during the total solar eclipse.
“Oh my God, my hands were shaking,” Prussman said a couple hours after seeing the total solar eclipse from Newport, Vt. “I was completely freaking out. It happened so fast, you just got to hope and pray you got it.
“It was so dramatic,” he added.
Have eclipse fever after Monday? You’ll have to wait a little while. The next total solar eclipse of this scale in the U.S. will be in 21 years.
