Solar eclipse March 8th at sunset: Although NASA reports this eclipse will only be visible in Asia & Australia, my super computers & simulations indicate we will see the moon just barely brush against the bottom edge of the sun & it's corona in the USA. Here's a video I made of my simulations. The simulation shows the approximate glare of the sun. You wouldn't actually see more than the very edge of a shadow of the moon touching the sun. But it's a good reference to see where the moon will be.

It's a video shot off the computer screen with my phone. For some reason the Linux simulation software will not let a capture directly from the screen. It's 3 clips combined. The first clip will be the east coast view, the second is the west coast view, & the third is the view from Australia. To view just a sliver of the moon touching the sun at sunset on the east coast, get on high ground like a hill or on a building, where there's a low western horizon at sunset, & hope for a very clear day. So far they're saying partly cloudy & 58F for that day.

I completely forgot about the eclipse because they said we wouldn't see it in the USA. I was running astronomy simulations for the next week for other stuff, when I noticed the moon hitting the sun next week. I rechecked my coordinates, & indeed the very edge of the moon will cross the very edge of the view of the sun as seen from the east & west coast. The west coast will see a little more though.

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