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Totality : the great American eclipses of 2017 and 2024

✍ Scribed by Espenak, Fred; Littmann, Mark

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Leaves
379
Edition
First edition
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Totality: The Great American Eclipses is a complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, total eclipses of the Sun. It focuses on the eclipses of August 21, 2017 and April 8, 2024 that pass across the United States. The U.S. mainland has not experienced a total solar eclipse since 1979. This book provides information, photographs, and illustrations to help the public understand and safely enjoy all aspects of these eclipses including how to observe a total eclipse of the Sun, how to photograph and video record an eclipse, why solar eclipses happen, and more.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. The experience of totality --
2. The great celestial cover-up --
3. Ancient efforts to understand --
4. Eclipses in mythology --
5. The strange behavior of man and beast--long ago --
6. The Sun at work --
7. The first eclipse chasers --
8. The eclipse that made Einstein famous --
9. Observing a total eclipse --
10. Eye safety during solar eclipses --
11. The strange behavior of man and beast-modern times --
12. Eclipse photography --
13. The all-American eclipse of 2017 --
14. The weather outlook --
15. When is the next one? Total eclipses: 2018-2023 --
16. Coming back to America: the total eclipse of 2024 --
17. Epilogue: Eclipses--cosmic perspective, human perspective.

✦ Subjects

Solar eclipses;SCIENCE;Astronomy

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