Eclipsed by dense clouds
HAILED as the most spectacular sight in the universe, last week’s lunar eclipse and Tuesday’s solar eclipse should have been spectacular - but as with everything else recently, the weather made it a no-show.
On Tuesday the only inkling that a partial solar eclipse was underway was the somewhat darker drive to work, which took on a ‘gloomy cast’ instead of the early morning light normally associated with the 8am to 8.30am drive.
Equally unfulfilling was the lunar eclipse. In the hours before dawn on December 21 the moon was supposed to undergo its first total lunar eclipse visible from the UK for three years...
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Hide AdAgain, Mother Nature had other ideas. It was supposed to be cloud free (as was Tuesday) - but Northern Ireland was wrapped in cloud on both occasions.
The next eclipses are not for decades - if the celestial bodies can get it right that is.