This year's solar eclipse - a first hand account

Discover how total solar eclipses profoundly affect the environment and everyone witnessing them as we explore the wonders of these events around the world. Our speaker, Omara Williams, is an award-winning software manager and science-fiction author who has long been interested in astronomy and is a keen umbraphile, dedicating most of the last 20 years chasing and documenting total solar eclipses.

Omara Williams is an acclaimed writer of science-fiction romance whose debut novel ‘The Space Traveller’s Lover‘ is a 2023 Global Book, BookFest and Outstanding Creator Awards winner.

Since a very young age, Omara has had a passion for science and technology, reading and writing.  She would spend hours each day imagining characters and situations and then write for hours. She would find inspiration in everything around her when writing stories, even the shapes of clouds or constellations in the night sky.

Omara holds a BSc Honours degree in Nuclear…