“The fifth solar eclipse that I saw was on the Faroe Islands. If you stood in position up on a hill, you could see the shadow arrive, travelling at the speed of an aeroplane. You could look down the horizon and then it came in a ‘whoosh’ right over you, like in the movie, Independence Day. Suddenly there is the corona in the sky; this ring of ice-cold fire. You see stars and planets and black sky. The horizon has an eerie, very dark, dusky light. It’s totally shocking because it’s so…
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