Did you know there is going to be a solar eclipse on March 20th?

I went to see and experience totality twice: March 7, 1970 off the coast of Massachusetts (I forget the island.) and on July 10, 1972 in Cap-Chat Quebec. The first time the sky was clear and I took a great movie of it. When totality whisked across us people got quiet and a flock of birds took off. Eerie.
The second time my friend and I drove 12 hours each way and were rewarded with a cloudy day. We may not have seen the eclipse but we sure had fun along the way. I recall swinging from a car tire swing over a river in Maine and flinging myself as far out into the water as possible. 40+ years ago and I still smile just thinking about it.

Yes I did, although i’m not too excited, we get a partial eclipse whenever the MIL bends over to tie her shoe. That gag was brought to you by Les Dawsons’ dusty old joke book

I might be able to see a bit of it from here in Norway, but it isn’t making a great swath across any really well populated parts of the Earth.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2015Mar20Tgoogle.html

Best place to be would be the Norwegian territory of Svalbard.

If you want to see pictures taken of this eclipse, look up pictures that will be taken at a place called Longyearbyen on Svalbard.

I’m not one for portents, although I am a bit tickled that the eclipse will be within 12 hours of the Spring equinox.

Here’s a map by NASA (US) that illustrates the path of the total eclipse.