Memories of April 8’s brief moments of totality—reserved only for those inside the 115-mile-wide path across North America—will live forever in the mind of anyone who experiences it, whatever the level of their scientific knowledge. However, all solar eclipses come with something extra for stargazers and amateur astronomers.
Total solar eclipse is not just for science geeks. Memories of April 8’s brief moments of totality—reserved only for those inside the 115-mile-wide path across North America—will live forever in the mind of anyone who experiences it, whatever the level of their scientific knowledge. However, all solar eclipses come with something extra for stargazers and amateur astronomers .
As well as the spectacle of the sun’s corona during a brief darkness in the day, a solar eclipse, by definition, sees the moon very close to the sun in the days and nights surrounding it. This new moon phase, when the moon is roughly (and, indeed, precisely) between the Earth and the sun, means dark nights free from moonlight.The week before a solar eclipse—from the third quarter on April 1 to the new moon phase occurring at the moment of the eclipse on April 8, will see the moon absent from the night sky. That makes a total solar eclipse an ideal time to get into a rural area and go stargazing—and there are plenty of such events planned, from Texas through Arkansas in particula
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