Total Solar Eclipses and How to Observe Them

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Автор: Martin Mobberley

Название: Total Solar Eclipses and How to Observe Them

Издательство: Springer

Год: 2007

Формат: PDF (rar+3%)

Размер: 58,17 Мб

Язык: Английский

Количество страниц: 201

Описание: This is the ultimate, easy-to-read guide for 'eclipse-chasers'. Eclipse chasers are now numbered in the tens of thousands. Every total solar eclipse sees dozens of cruise ships, each with about a thousand people on board, steaming along the track of the eclipse. Tens of thousands of observers travel to the eclipse track on land, to witness these rare astronomical events. There are some important eclipses coming up in the years ahead: in 2008 August across Siberia, and then through the Gobi Desert. In 2009, there is a six minute 38 second eclipse (very long) in China, south of Japan, and the Pacific Ocean. There will be two more big ones in the south Pacific in 2010 and 2012, then in 2017 there is a solar eclipse that will be visible right across the USA. The technology available to amateur astronomers is improving fast. Recent additions are low-cost white-light solar binoculars, and the new generation of affordable H-Alpha telescopes. These can of course be used to view prominences without an eclipse taking place, and the book includes something of this too.

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