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Totality -- The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024
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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:
SC How to observe a total eclipse of the Sun
SC How to photograph and video record an eclipse
SC Why solar eclipses happen
SC The earliest attempts to understand and predict eclipses
SC The mythology and folklore of eclipses
SC The response of animals to total solar eclipses
SC The response of man to total eclipses through time
SC How scientists used total eclipses to understand how the Sun works
SC How astronomers used a total solar eclipse in 1919 to confirm Einstein's general theory of relativity
SC Weather prospects for the 2017 eclipse
SC Detailed maps of the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse and the eclipses of 2018 through 2024
SC Precise local times for the eclipses of 2017 and 2024 (the next total solar eclipse to visit the U.S.)
SC Color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and charts to illustrate and explain total solar eclipses
SC Global maps of total solar eclipses from 2017 to 2045 and lists of total and annual solar eclipses from 1970 through 2070
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What Reviewers Are Saying
Plenty of professional expertise in its overall contents. * Owen Gingerich, Times Literary Supplement * The most thorough on the practicalities of viewing an eclipse... It's a great reference book. * Stuart Clark, New Scientist * At GBP25, this book is an extremely useful, affordable guide to both of these magnificent astronomical phenomena. * Steve Bell, Observatory Magazine * The purpose of this book is to prepare the readers for the two total solar eclipses in the US ... Everything the readers need to be efficient eclipse observers is here. * B. Ishak, Contemporary Physics *