Eclipses of the Sun, 3 Edition

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Название: Eclipses of the Sun, 3 Edition

Автор: Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak

Издательство: O-rd Univ Press

Год: 2009

Страниц 360

ISBN: 019956552X

Формат: PDF

Размер: 10,1 MB

Язык Английский

Francis Baily spent his 20s exploring unsettled parts of North America and didn't get around to astronomy until he was 37, when he traveled to an annular eclipse of the Sun in southern Scotland. On May 15, 1836, he watched as light from the occluded sun poured through the lunar valleys and reached him broken up into "a row of lucid points, like a string of bright beads." With those words, Baily founded the industry of eclipse chasing.

The best feature of Totality is its wealth of biographical information about eclipse chasers past and present. Throughout this century, every total eclipse over land has been attended by scientists willing to travel great distances, endure hostile climates--and risk complete failure because of clouds--for a few minutes' view of the corona. This turbulent outer part of the sun, best studied when the sun is obscured, draws observers across the globe to this day.