Bruce McClure
Bruce McClure has served as lead writer for EarthSky s popular Tonight pages since 2004. He s a sundial aficionado, whose love for the heavens has taken him to Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and sailing in the North Atlantic, where he earned his celestial navigation certificate through the School of Ocean Sailing and Navigation. He also writes and hosts public astronomy programs and planetarium programs in and around his home in upstate New York.
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May 19, 2021
View larger. | EarthSky community member Beverley Sinclair captured this beautiful view of a total solar eclipse outside Charleston, South Carolina, on August 21, 2017, and wrote: “The skies were very cloudy leading up to totality but, miraculously, slowly cleared as totality approached. This photo shows the diamond ring and Baily’s beads.” Thank you, Beverley!
The middle of the current eclipse season falls on June 1, 2021. This eclipse season features two eclipses: a total eclipse of the moon on May 26, and then one fortnight (approximately two weeks) later, an annular eclipse of the sun on June 10. Want to learn more about the cycle of eclipses? Keep reading …