Astro Trails Eclipse Articles

An eclipse of the Sun occurs when the orbit of the moon passes in front of the Sun as seen from the Earth. The shadow of the moon follows...

There are five stages in a total solar eclipse:​ Partial eclipse begins (1st contact): The Moon becomes visible over the Sun's disk. It...

When the Moon is at a more distant point of its orbit the Sun is not completely covered and a very small, bright circle or annulus...

Success in observing an eclipse requires a mix of detailed research and, as far as the weather goes, an element of luck! You need to know...

The Eclipse observation site ​On the day of the eclipse you will want to get to your observation site in good time before “first contact”....

Astro Trails current eclipse projects can be viewed here Exmouth, Australia - Hybrid Solar Eclipse April 2023 Torreon, Mexico and Texas,...

The total solar eclipse of 2020 December 14 started at sunrise in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, fortuitously reached its maximum...

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...

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...