Ars contributor Kunio Sayanagi was in the desert at New Mexico's El Malpais National Monument when the solar eclipse took place yesterday. He sent us in a couple of photos, and we've searched for others to give anyone who couldn't see the event directly the chance to appreciate it.

Although the visibility of the eclipse from Earth was limited to the Pacific Rim, it was also possible to watch it from space, as evidenced by this image from the joint JAXA/NASA Hinode mission.

Elsewhere in space, the ISS passed over the Pacific, allowing its occupants to photograph the shadow cast by the eclipse on the clouds below.

Those clouds made for dramatic viewing from many parts of the globe, including this shot from Yokahama.

But viewing in Tokyo was quite a bit better, based on this sequence of images from Kim Nilsson.

Viewing in California was also quite good, as this composite from Eric Wagner shows.

Even at its maximum, the outer edges of the Sun were still visible. That's because the Moon was at its apogee, or furthest point in its orbit from Earth. That made its apparent size smaller relative to that of the Sun. (This is the flipside of the recent "Supermoon," which occurred at the Moon's perigee.)

For safety reasons, people were urged to view the eclipse through a pinhole lens, which projects an image onto a dark surface. This is a projector in action in Sacramento, California.

Back in New Mexico with Kunio, the shadows cast by a tree created multiple pinholes, all of which projected images of the eclipse on the ground.

If you snapped a picture of the event, feel free to link it in the discussion.