Astro Trails Eclipse Articles

The total solar eclipse of 2020 December 14 started at sunrise in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, fortuitously reached its maximum duration of 2m 10s as it swept across a thin strip of south America and ended at sunset off the coast of Namibia. The centre of the umbral shadow swept across Chile and Argentina in less than 19 minutes and these were the only two countries where observation from land was possible. The weather prospects were generally better to the east of the An

The centre of the umbra of the 2019 July 2 Total Solar Eclipse first touched the Earth’s surface at 18:02 UTC in the Pacific, north east of New Zealand. It then crossed that vast ocean, crossing dry land only once at the tiny Oeno Island (a member of the Pitcairn group) before making landfall at La Serena on the Chilean coast at 20:40 UTC. The shadow crossed the continent of South America in four minutes lifting off the Earth at sunset just south of Buenos Aires. I was with a