Overview

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§ The earliest attempts to understand and predict eclipses§ The mythology and folklore of eclipses§ The response of animals to total solar eclipses§ The response of man to total eclipses through time§ How scientists used total eclipses to understand how the Sun works§ How astronomers used a total solar eclipse in 1919 to confirm Einstein's general theory of relativity§ Weather prospects for the 2017 eclipse§ Detailed maps of the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse and the eclipses of 2018 through 2024§ Precise local times for the eclipses of 2017 and 2024 (the next total solar eclipse to visit the U.S.)§ Color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and charts to illustrate and explain total solar eclipses § 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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Author:   Mark Littmann (Professor, Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) ,  Fred Espenak (Astrophysicist emeritus, Astrophysicist emeritus, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.828kg
ISBN:  

9780198795698

ISBN 10:   0198795696
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   04 May 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Eclipse of 2024 17: Epilogue AppA: Maps for Every Solar Eclipse 2017-2045 App B: Total, Annular, and Hybrid Eclipses: 2017-2060 App C: Recent Total, Annular, and Hybrid Eclipses: 1970-2016 App D: Total Eclipses in the United States: 1492 to 2100

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`Review from previous edition Although this work is academic to the extent that it could easily be used as a reference textbook, it is written so professionally that it reads more like a well-crafted novel! ' Astronomy Now `The best book on solar eclipses ever written.' Leif Robinson, Editor in Chief of Sky & Telescope `This is the book! Everything you ever watned to know about eclipses. You can always count on these writers to give you the best.' Jack Horkheimer, writer and host of StarGazer on PBS

The most thorough on the practicalities of viewing an eclipse... It's a great reference book. * Stuart Clark, New Scientist * Plenty of professional expertise in its overall contents. * Owen Gingerich, Times Literary Supplement *

Review from previous edition Although this work is academic to the extent that it could easily be used as a reference textbook, it is written so professionally that it reads more like a well-crafted novel! Astronomy Now The best book on solar eclipses ever written. Leif Robinson, Editor in Chief of Sky & Telescope This is the book! Everything you ever watned to know about eclipses. You can always count on these writers to give you the best. Jack Horkheimer, writer and host of StarGazer on PBS

Author Information

"Mark Littmann has written several popular books about astronomy. Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar System won the Science Writing Award of the American Institute of Physics. Planet Halley: Once in a Lifetime (Donald K Yeomans, co-author) won the Elliott Montroll Special Award of the New York Academy of Sciences. Reviewers described The Heavens on Fire: The Great Leonid Meteor Storms as a ""unique achievement,"" ""altogether satisfying,"" and ""a compelling read."" Mark holds an endowed professorship, the Hill Chair of Excellence in Science Writing, at the University of Tennessee where he teaches three different courses in writing about science, technology, medicine, and the environment. He has helped lead expeditions to Canada, Hawaii, Bolivia, Aruba, and Turkey to observe total eclipses. Fred Espenak is the most widely recognized name in solar eclipses. He is an astrophysicist emeritus at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where he founded and runs the NASA Eclipse Home Page , the most consulted website for eclipse information around the globe. His Five Millennium Canons of solar and lunar eclipses are seminal works for researchers, archaeologists, and historians. Fred writes regularly on eclipses for Sky & Telescope and is probably the best known of all eclipse photographers. He leads expeditions for every total solar eclipse and has done so for more than 35 years. In 2003, the International Astronomical Union honored Espenak and his eclipse work by naming asteroid 14120 after him."

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