Astro Trails Eclipse Articles

With a long duration eclipse in prospect and a choice of two attractive locations, what could possibly go wrong? This was our biggest...

This was always going to be a weather dependent eclipse with rapidly changing sunny gaps in large cumulous clouds. We flew in on a...

There were several destination options for this eclipse and based on weather data we selected a site on Banka Island, off the Indonesian...

Anticipating the likely weather conditions was quite an artform in those days, long before any sort of satellite aid. I spent some time...

Every eclipse has different logistic obstacles and the 1981 event had plenty. As the track ran through the Soviet Union even getting...

I 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...