A collection of articles covering a wide range of topics written by members of the Astronomy Section over the years.
On 12th August 2026, skywatchers across Guernsey witnessed the Moon cover up to 94.5% of the Sun. While the line of totality tracked across parts of Russia, Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Portugal, the Channel Islands experienced their deepest partial solar eclipse in 27 years — the most significan...
This collection of quotations concentrates on solar eclipses, but a few referring to lunar eclipses are included. Some are from literary sources, while others are predictions and records. I have avoided scientific reports, preferring to include descriptive accounts.
On the flight out to Venezuela to see the total eclipse, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau joined us in a film called Out at Sea, a story of two old men going on a cruise ship to view a total eclipse of the Sun. Despite the fact that the film showed a Full Moon on the night before the eclipse and the n...