Tag: astronomy

• When did your town last see a total eclipse?

  

  London has seen one total eclipse of the Sun in 1,200 years. I computed every path of totality across Britain and Ireland from AD 1000 to 2200 and tested 17,103 places: for most towns the last one was in 1715 or 1724.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  astronomy, Britain, data, eclipses, Halley, history, Ireland, maps