And a slightly weird one. The best details (as usual) are on Fred Espenak’s Eclipse Page at NASA. (But see also Mr.Eclipse.com for other useful info.)
(The image to the right obviously isn’t of an annular eclipse, but a total one. It was taken by Fred Espenak during the 1999 total eclipse, which we shared, soaking wet and under 100% overcast, with many others in the beautiful city of Stuttgart. [Best moment during this eclipse: explaining to six-year-old Gavin, who’d been brought all the way from England to see this wonder, that the darkness was caused by the Moon going in front of the Sun. His expression of polite but total skepticism on hearing this, plainly yet another of the endless dumb and patently impossible things that adults try to get you to believe when you’re a kid, was memorable.])
…Ireland is not best positioned for this annular — looks like Iceland wins in that regard — but dawn will look interestingly strange and dark anyway. The weather is shifting a little, so that we may get a decent view: probably it’s worth asking Peter to get the 35 mm cameras ready for a shot at it.
