ABSTRACT
There is no doubt in my mind that a total edpse of the Sun is the grandest :-;ight in all Narure. ;\s the last sliver of the brilliant solar disc disapjxars, the sky darkens and the corona Hashes into view. The spectacle is breathtaking. The trouble is that as seen from any particular location on Earth, total eclipses do not happen very often, because the Moon's shadow is only just long enough to reach terra firma. The track of totality can never be more than 169 miles (272 km) wide, so that you have to be in exactly rhe right place at exactly the right time. Frorn Lngland, there were no total eclipses between 1927 and 1999. The next will be delayed until September 2090.
