Photo Gallery: Ring of fire at Caltech

At a quarter past five, the people in line outside Caltech¿s Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics started to grow restless. The university originally planned Sunday night’s solar eclipse viewing party for students, professors and others in the Caltech community, but hype for the astronomical event, fueled by the Internet, drew an estimated 700 people to the Pasadena campus.