New astronomy webpage and grants devoted to next year’s eclipse
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has launched both a new grant program and a astronomy webpage devoted to the Great American eclipse that will cross the entire lower 48 states next August.
The eclipse occurs on August 21, and will cut a strip from Oregon to South Carolina.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has launched both a new grant program and a astronomy webpage devoted to the Great American eclipse that will cross the entire lower 48 states next August.
The eclipse occurs on August 21, and will cut a strip from Oregon to South Carolina.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Very cool & I was not aware I’d get a chance to see an eclipse of this magnitude.
If memory serves (and at my age this can be questionable) wasn’t there a full or near full eclipse over most of the US in the early to mid 1990’s?
I remember a bunch of us standing outside waiting for this to happen and it was some what disappointing. I had seen darker days during thunderstorms.
Ted– (totally empathize with the memory ‘thing!)
> there was a total eclipse in ’93. My mom & dad went to Baja (mexico) to see it– something like 7 minutes of totality. (Have some great pictures.)
correction– that should have been “1991” for the total eclipse over Baja.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_11,_1991
Don’t want to hijack this thread, –but here is a copy-of-a-copy, of an actual picture, of the ’91 eclipse in Baja.
http://www.stargazing.net/mas/pics_devette/Eclipse.jpg
-I have the original 24X36 print hanging on my wall. It’s absolutely amazing.
My dad was a total amateur-astrophotographer- but he waited his whole life to see an eclipse & made the best of it photographically. (A Sky & Telescope Eclipse Tour, the Science Guest Host was Dr. Levy (I think… it could have been Shoemaker.)
Wayne: The track for totality across the U.S. is somewhat narrow. You will not see totality in Michigan, just a partial eclipse.
I made reservations in a hotel in Idaho Falls, inside totality, the first day reservations were accepted. They already were half taken, and were charging about $800 per room, about 8x what they normally charge. I took it. I have never seen a total eclipse, and this chance won’t come again.
Mr. Z– way cool on your eclipse trip!
-I have no doubt you will be amazed.
I’m willing to travel for this, if I can get my g-daughter close to totality, I’ll do it. (& we’ll sleep in the car!)
Have amateur & pro- video of the ’91 eclipse, and numerous excellent amateur shots of totality. (including that “green flash” thing that happens)
Ted– the only compensation I have for the “memory thing,” is the internal-confidence (Hope) that I’ve probably forgotten more than some people, ever knew originally.
(not to be an elitist snob, I’m an average-nobody, but I’m d-sure I’m not the only one who can see the Craziness going on In the World today.)
Wayne: See the graphic on this page to get an idea where totality will be.
Mr. Z–
Thanks, I LIKE that path! Nice and close to me.
again, not to hi-jack this thread–
> 3 minutes of amateur youtube video of the ’91 eclipse.
Total Solar Eclipse – July 11, 1991
https://youtu.be/XtSLZFItx5o
I have 90 minutes of really good vhs tape, but not converted to digital or uploaded anywhere. Includes a dinner-presentation to Dr. Levy, town-scenes, and beach scenes of everyone w/ their telescopes/cameras set up, and 7 minutes through a small 4 inch telescope of the eclipse.
This one short clip does however, give you an idea of the setting in this little coastal Mexican town on the Baja peninsula, 100% totality zone. (There’s better available but I’m not that industrious today.)
Excuse the quality, but the light-balance on this old video is fairly representative of the how dark it became. Happened mid day & with perfectly clear weather. (birds came out)
Town-folk held a giant parade the night before.
Very good amateur video;
Total Solar Eclipse — July 11, 1991
https://youtu.be/7XhpToLX6KQ
(9:39)
Shot through a small telescope with & without solar-filter(s), concurrent picture-in-picture view of the area, captions,…very nicely done for 1991.
From what I’m told– “that’s what it looks like.”