PHOTOS: Southern California's view of the Great American Eclipse

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Monday, August 21, 2017
Large crowds of people seen watching the solar eclipse at Griffith Observatory on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017.
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PHOTOS: Southern California's view of the Great American EclipseLarge crowds of people seen watching the solar eclipse at Griffith Observatory on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- See photos of Monday's solar eclipse in Southern California, where 60 percent of the sun was blocked by the moon.

The stellar sighting was the first coast-to-coast total eclipse in nearly a century.

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People in what's called the "pathway of totality" -- a narrow corridor stretching from Oregon to South Carolina -- saw the moon completely cover the sun. Southern California and the rest of the nation saw a partial eclipse.

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The partial eclipse took place between 9:05 a.m. and 11:44 a.m.

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