No, it’s not the End Times. Right about now a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor that travels across half the Earth over the next 24 hours. There’ll be two paths, the major one being that of the Moon’s umbral shadow. Beginning in Brazil, it’s extending across the Atlantic, through northern Africa and central Asia where it’ll end at sunset in Western Mongolia. A partial eclipse will be visible in the much broader path of the Moon’s penumbral shadow that includes two thirds of Africa, Europe and central Asia. For more information, including some fantastic graphics, click here. If anything weird or wonderful happens to you today, please post here or tell Jonathan Cainer about it. Blink and you’ll miss it.
UPDATE: You blinked, and missed it. For a stunning photo gallery click here. I’m still looking for a news story that showed footage of crowds watching the eclipse at the Pyramids of Giza, on the banks of the River Ganges in India, the plains of Africa … stunning.
