Astro TrailsJun 1, 20141 minChasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, June 1991, Hawaii and MexicoWith a long duration eclipse in prospect and a choice of two attractive locations, what could possibly go wrong? This was our biggest...
Astro TrailsJan 1, 20141 minChasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, July 1990, FinlandThis was always going to be a weather dependent eclipse with rapidly changing sunny gaps in large cumulous clouds. We flew in on a...
Astro TrailsMar 1, 20131 minChasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, March 1988, Sumatra and PhilippinesThere were several destination options for this eclipse and based on weather data we selected a site on Banka Island, off the Indonesian...
Astro TrailsJun 1, 20121 minChasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, June 1983, JavaAnticipating the likely weather conditions was quite an artform in those days, long before any sort of satellite aid. I spent some time...
Astro TrailsJul 1, 20111 minChasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, July 1981, KazakhstanEvery eclipse has different logistic obstacles and the 1981 event had plenty. As the track ran through the Soviet Union even getting...
Astro TrailsFeb 1, 20101 minChasing Shadows: Total Solar Eclipse, February 1980, KenyaI had driven over the road from Mombasa to Malindi some twenty years earlier when Kenya was still a colony and the road had aged no...