Posted on 08/21/2017 5:31:29 AM PDT by davikkm
Total solar eclipse is one of the most fascinating astronomical phenomena. Thousands and sometimes millions of people, as it was in case of the last total eclipse visible in central Europe, travel to the narrow band of totality to enjoy fleeting beauty lasting few minutes only. Even people without any knowledge in physics and astronomy realize during the total eclipse that our Sun is definitely not a boring light source of a round shape shining down from the heaven but an extremely interesting living star which occupies surprisingly large part of the sky.
Astonishing series of scientific discoveries were made during the rare total solar eclipses. Probably the most famous one was done on May 29th 1919 when it was proved that the Sun behaves like a giant achromatic gravitational lens as it was predicted by Einstein’s general relativity theory. Although nowadays cosmic probes greatly extended the possibilities of observing the Sun as the telescopes can be placed outside the interfering Earth’s atmosphere, each total solar eclipse remains a scientific event of great importance. Total solar eclipse gives an unique opportunity to take advantage of digital cameras, advanced photographic films, fast computers, and modern mathematics and create images of inner corona in the quality which is nowadays impossible to be reached by any other way. The main aim of these Web pages is to prove that the previous sentence is truthful and that from the scientific point of view it makes sense to organize expeditions to each total solar eclipse.
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Awesome. Picture already posted. Oh, old pic. Anypone else see the drone shots of the gatherings in Oregon? You’d have thought there was a land auction for $20.00/acre today or something.
It’s the sun, duh.
In before the eclipse blog pimp alurt !
Rob - Next time just post the important links, without giving the unnecessary click-through for IWB.
Trump’s fault.
What amazes me is that the size of the moon and its distance from Earth are exactly perfect to create a total solar eclipse. Eventually, that won’t be the case as the Moon moves further away from Earth...I think it is 1 inch per year.
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