Tuesday - Day 18 - Sea Day

After leaving Greenland, the Captain was making his way on Tuesday to the track of the solar eclipse so we could be in position to see it on Wednesday afternoon.

We were relaxing and attending sessions to educate ourselves...

.... primarily regarding tomorrow's solar eclipse! These were the estimated times, but, the captain did not know precisely where along the path of totality that we would end up finding clear skies, so they were subject to change, but not by much.

The talk was by the onboard astronomer, Tom Vassos, from University of Toronto.

He brought graphics from many sources and was very entertaining. This is a picture of the activity going on on the sun's surface earlier on Tuesday. There are a lot of sun storms / ejections going on during this time very close to solar maximum (solar maximum was during 2025).

Because of the high level of solar activity, we may witness several special activities of the sun while the moon blocks the main part of the sun's light.

Near totality, both going into totality and coming out, we might see the "diamond ring" just before the last light of the sun is extinguished (or just after the first light of the sun is again seen).

Tom Vassos is an interesting character -- entertaining, smart, able to built excitement in folks who are on a solar eclipse cruise, but may not know much about what is about to happen.

Other than Tom's lecture, we relaxed (and ate). We could get used to living like this!