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A complete guide to solar eclipses for the general public with detailed coverage of the 2017 and 2024 total eclipses over the U.S. Well timed for the August 2017 eclipse over North America, it shows how, when, and where to see the coming total solar eclipses, how to photograph and video record them, and how to do so safely.

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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:
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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Plenty of professional expertise in its overall contents. Owen Gingerich, Times Literary Supplement

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