Solar Eclipse coming to Nunavut
This should be pretty cool to watch, even if I'm unlikely to find myself in Cambridge Bay next year, Iqaluit will get a pretty good show.
It's still more than a year away, but avid skywatchers from as far away as Japan are already booking flights to Nunavut to see next summer's total eclipse of the sun.
The moon will cross the sun on Aug. 1, 2008, creating the eclipse. In North America, the best places to see the event are the Nunavut hamlets of Grise Fiord, Cambridge Bay and Resolute Bay, as they will see total or near-total darkness.
Arctic Bay and Pond Inlet will see partial darkness during the eclipse, while Iqaluit will see about 80 per cent of the sun eclipsed.
