August 5th Lunar impact

That much-challenged cruise will have a great view of underside of clouds getting darker then brighter.

"Our trip on it, which I alluded to a few months ago, was around Svalbard ..." @fuzzy1 calls that great. It must have happily slotted between bouts of typically bad weather there.

 

That is how I experienced the February 1979 total eclipse. The August 2017 edition was in perfect weather. I also had an unplanned but great view of the May 2012 annular eclipse.

Windy shows this:



Cruise ship mapper shows this (red circle marks the ship I was on, the dots and wedges mark other similar ships):

Most of the trip was in very calm seas, protected fjords, or in the ice pack where the waves seemed very heavily damped. But for about 12-16 hours I experienced my worst seasickness ever. That was remedied by another protected fjord, then the final segment of open sea was less severe.

While many of my regular fellow travelers have done 7 continents, I'm fine with just 6. According to the bridge, the worst waves we were experiencing were about 3 meters. For comparison, this ship and crew have been through 10 meter waves in the Drake Passage, reinforcing my long-ago decision that I will never sail the Drake.