We get to see a partial solar eclipse this afternoon in Sydney. It’s right on sunset, so I’ll be nipping out of the office with my eclipse glasses and finding a spot with a good view of the western horizon. We’ve had a clear morning but of course the cloud now seems to be starting to develop.
It was cloudy right until the bitter end, when we caught a very brief glimpse of the setting sun.
The truly best are the total solar eclipses, of course. Even 99% covered won’t do. At 100% the Corona shines around a black circle in the sky.
Too bad you didn’t see the local flora and fauna react. At a mid 1990’s annular eclipse, I went golfing with a friend at Jones Beach on LI and the seagulls and Canadian geese flocked in with a big fog. Quite cool. I’d seen similar meteorological stuff in Hawaii 1991 and Romania 1999. I got cool pix from both of them because I had a car 
What did the setting sun look like?
Just like the normal setting sun. By then it was already sinking below the horizon in the north-west. With the naked eye you couldn’t really see any details of the moon passing across the sun’s face.
In 2026 there will be a total eclipse occurring right before sunset, visible from the sunset bars of Ibiza. I really have to be there.
Before that I am wondering whether to try and see the total eclipse in March next year from the Faroes (it would be my fourth). I can’t see the weather playing ball though…
Along with about a zillion other people too.
Wouldn’t you need to have done something about accommodation and transport by now? I don’t imagine that there’s an abundance of hotel rooms in the Faroes.
Well, yeah. So not much different from Ibiza in a regular August 
There are places available on organised tours, but as you’d expect they are pretty expensive. Quite a lot of locals are going to be earning some extra cash by renting out rooms to people for a few days. It’s certainly still possible, but I think the chances of getting a decent view are too low to justify the expense on this one. Not too long to wait before there’s one that crosses the USA coast to coast, which will be a lot easier, logistically. (Any ideas where the sunniest skies along that track are likely to be in August?)
Somewhere along the center line in Nebraska is most promising.