Believe it or not, I’m quite well along in making Astronomical Calendar 2024, and here for example is part of the globe picture for the total solar eclipse that will cross the USA on April 8,
with the cone of the total shadow, and the path it will trace from Texas to Newfoundland.
It reminds us strongly of the previous USA-crossing total eclipse, 2017 August 21, which slanted in the opposite southeastward direction, and for which I revisited the Furman campus at Greenville, SC. Our correspondent Rick Scheithauer recently told me he was to visit the same place and thought he remembered my mentioning a tower. I suggested he look back at this blog post. You might take another look at my four paintings that try to capture the emotions of eclipse.
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I’m in Johannesburg at the moment. Nice to receive one of your posts immediately, rather than the following morning.