Welcome to the Explorers Tours Eclipse website where you'll find an introduction to eclipses, outlines of our astronomy tour programme and how to get in touch with us.

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth, casting a shadow across the earth's surface. To see a total solar eclipse, you must be standing within that shadow, stand anywhere outside that band and you only see a partial eclipse.

A total eclipse of the sun will be observed on 1st August 2008. The track of the moon’s shadow will first touch the surface of the earth at dawn in Northern Canada, it then moves across the north polar region and into Siberia, then across the western edge of Mongolia and leaves the earth at sunset in Central China.

This event is one of nature’s most spectacular pieces of theatre - never failing to impress those fortunate enough to observe it. The track of the shadow is up to 250km wide but the longest duration of the event is seen by observers close to the centre of the track.