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1959, USA

The team:

Prof. Donald H. Menzel, Jay Pasachoff, Ken Janes, John Leibacher, Don Goldsmith, Nan Evans, John Fryer, Richard Goodman, Tony Rossmann, Margaret Horton (now Margaret Weiler), K. Paul Smith, Aquila Chase, Jeff Hill

Photo by Don Goldsmith

The 1959 eclipse and how it led to the major observatory in the Canary Islands
Menzel and Eclipses (Journal for the History of Astronomy)

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Jay Pasachoff's eclipse research 2019-2023 is supported by the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) Division of the U.S. National Science Foundation, succeeding AGS-1602461 during the period of the 2017 eclipse. Some prior eclipse research including the 2017 American-eclipse observations were also supported by grants from the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society.

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