Based on my simulation program, it does not appear the eclipse will be total even in Northern Scotland. As you mentioned last year the Faroe Islands seem to be the place to be for a total eclipse. It is partial in Iceland and Norway, where a thin crescent of the Sun will still show, and everywhere else except those islands, or on a ship at sea. This is better than the partial eclipse I saw at MIU some years ago. I was one of the few who saw it, as the others cowered in buildings. Such is the superstition from India.
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 3:42 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Bad eclipse karma... I bet it ruined his holiday. I wish I'd booked a weekend break in Scotland for it, last one I saw was from the roof of the TM academy and no one else was interested due to bad influences - standing in a shadow is bad? I asked. If you've never had the pleasure it's a really spooky experience. The light disappears but not like it does when the sun goes down, it's more like the colour is being sucked out of the world and all the birds stop singing, and then it gets cold. As it approaches totality you can see the shadow of the moon rushing towards you in a straight line, that's when I glanced up and got an idea of the moon as a lump of rock, not an intellectual understanding but actually like there's a vast ball of heaviness flying about over your head. Far out. It's a welcome glimpse at the proper perspective of where we are and what's going on that you don't get from just standing on the Earth.
