Sheridan Williams has produced a brief guide, UK Solar
Eclipses from Year 1
(Clock Tower Press, PO Box 5010, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire LU7 0ZZ,
£11.95, ISBN 1 85142 093 2). Looks like time to book that hotel in
Cornwall for 11 August 1999. That’ll be the only total eclipse visible from
Britain until 2133.
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