After April’s “Blood Moon,” everybody is all up in the eclipse biz, and why not? They’ve been enthralling humanity from the start. No one place gets more eclipses than another, but the upside is that they occur with such regular frequency that mankind has been predicting them with pinpoint accuracy since Stonehenge. Now, of course, we have NASA. Here’s a list of the next shadow-plays done on a planet-sized scale:
The Pacific Ocean – October 8, 2014
A downer for Floridians who will be in daylight at the time, the second lunar eclipse of 2014 shall dazzle night owls in Hawai’i and American Samoa instead. And who doesn’t like Hawai’i and American Samoa? Think of the photo op at Kilauea.
North America – October 23, 2014
A partial solar eclipse will sweep over Canada, the USA, and Mexico this coming winter. The Sun will, literally, look like a crescent moon. Because partials can be bigger or smaller depending on where your viewpoint is on Earth, you’ll have to head up all the way to Canada’s Nunavut Province to see the maximum of the Sun’s disk blotted out.
Svalbard & the Faeroe Islands – March 20, 2015
Talk about bad aim: The big mama of eclipses, a total eclipse of the Sun, will manage to miss just about everybody next spring as it rolls over the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans next year. The best place to see it will be the remote, windswept Faeroe Islands and Svalbard Archipelago, but intrepid astro-photographers will have two of the most primordial landscapes on Earth to go with the event. The Faeroes, a Danish territory, are already booking hotels.
North & South America, Africa, Europe – September 28, 2015
Another lunar eclipse, imagine what photographers will get with Chichen Itza, Stonehenge, the Eiffel Tower, Acropolis or the Pyramids as backdrops.
Indonesia & Polynesia – March 9, 2016
Hitting smack dab on the Equator, this total eclipse of the Sun will leave the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi in total darkness before moving into the idyllic Pacific Island nations of Palau, Micronesia, and the American territory of Wake Island. Because so much of this one takes place over water—particularly warm, tropical, azure-blue water—cruise lines are jumping on this like gangbusters.
Go to visitfaeroeislands.com for the next solar show, or to nasa.org to do a little planning of your own. Steele Luxury Travel has your ticket to see the next eclipse and beyond. Visit us at www.SteeleTravel.com for more details!