On April 8 2024, only ten days away, a Total Eclipse of the Sun will sweep over North America. On this long-awaited Eclipse Day, the Path of Totality is where you’ll want to be. It stretches all the way over North America, it’s about 170 km wide, so there’s lots of places you can go: […]
On April 8, 2024, a Total Eclipse of the Sun is coming to Newfoundland. This must-see event is so rare that I recommend taking the day off and driving into the Path of Totality to experience the spectacle for yourself. Long-time readers will have already marked this day as ‘Eclipse Day’ on their calendar, as […]
On Monday August 21st (next week), there will be a Partial Solar Eclipse visible from Newfoundland. This eclipse has been widely covered in the news because a narrow strip of the United States will experience the event as a breathtaking Total Solar Eclipse. If you’re anywhere outside of the narrow ‘Path of Totality’ on Monday, the […]
March 29 2024 update: With the eclipse just ten days away, I’ve written one last article to get you excited for Eclipse Day: Go see the Total Eclipse of the Sun Let’s take a look into the future, 8 years into the future! Nope, I’m not kidding, please open your calendars and mark April 8th 2024 as ‘Eclipse Day’. […]
There will be a supermoon eclipse this weekend, so please mark your calendars for Sunday September 27th at 11:41 PM, which is the start of the total lunar eclipse phase. Lunar eclipses are fantastic enough in their own right, they only happen every once in a while; that this particular eclipse coincides with the largest supermoon of the year […]
Today’s partial solar eclipse was totally eclipsed by an overcast sky over St. John’s. It’s a real shame, we had lousy weather all week and today started as a bright spring day, offering ideal viewing conditions up until half an hour before the eclipse. Then, clouds rolled in and that was the end of it. […]
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