Davis residents gathered in open spaces all over town Sunday evening to watch the annular eclipse of the sun, in which the moon covered all but the outer ring of the sun.

The UC Davis geology department provided protective sunglasses for people who wanted to look directly at the sun. Others used welder’s masks or rudimentary pinhole cameras to watch the astronomical rarity.

In the Davis area, south of the eclipse’s path, a partial eclipse covered a maximum of 92 percent of the sun at 6:32 p.m.