The tasks of the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group on Solar Eclipses include:
a) Working with the general public, providing materials and links to explain why eclipses are interesting to watch, how to observe them safely, and what science is being studied; and
b) Working with professional astronomers from around the world, to help coordinate their expeditions to total solar eclipses, including helping them work with customs in various countries about the temporary importation of scientific equipment.
Most Recent Total Solar Eclipse – Saturday, December, 4, 2021
- 2021, December 5 – Wide image by Petr Horálek
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LIVESTREAM: https://www.nasa.gov/live/
(All times Eastern U.S. time, which equates to UTC-5.)
Dec. 4, Saturday
1:30 a.m. – Live views of the total solar eclipse. The feed will continue through 3:30 a.m. EST. Totality is expected at 2:44 a.m. EST. (There will be music playing during the stream.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg - Further Information found at https://sites.williams.edu/eclipse/2021-december-04-total-eclipse/
- Preliminary Prediction of the December 4, 2021 eclipse corona
- December 4 charter flight package for Airbus 321 to view the eclipse from the air East of Punta Arenas, Chile
- Xavier Jubier’s Google map (clickable; zoomable)
- Fred Espenak’s map at http://EclipseWise.com
- Jay Anderson: weather/cloudiness info: http://eclipsophile.com (see our new book, Peterson Field Guide to Weather (2021), at pasachoff.com)
Previous Total Solar Eclipse- Monday, December 14, 2020
- Total Solar Eclipse Webpage
- Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2020-Y19 MPEC
- Livestream List compiled by Daniel Fischer
- Carnegie Observatory Registration Link (Dr. John Mulchaey – 10:30am to 12:30pm)
- TimeandDate Livestream
- Livestream Information
- Television and other instructions from Argentina (in Spanish)
- Argentinean Assoc. of Astronomy live on December 14 from 11:30 am (Argentine time) through Channel 10 online and shared from the association’s accounts (Twitter and Facebook).
- Jay Anderson’s “weather desk”
- Fred Espenak’s website
- Fred Espenak’s Google map
- Google Map from Xavier Jubier
- Eclipse Comet
- Eclipse Prediction
Most Recent Annular Solar Eclipses—2020 and 2021
Astronomy Magazine article for the June 2021 annular eclipse
- 2021: June 10, Arctic (Canada, Greenland, Russia); partial phases throughout the Eastern U.S.A., Europe, and northern Asia (annular eclipse), Google Map from Xavier Jubier
- 2020: June 21, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman; Pakistan, India, China, Taiwan (annular eclipse), Google Map from Xavier Jubier
How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely
Future Eclipses
- 2021: December 4, Antarctica Google Map from Xavier Jubier
- Glenn Schneider/Tim Todd’s Total Solar Eclipse Flight Details
- TravelQuest on-ice tour (priced from ~$40,000)
- According to this article there are at least 20 polar-expedition ships planning to be in the path – Kelly Beatty
- Sky and Telescope Total Eclipse Cruise
- Michael Zeiler, “Polar Solar Eclipse”, GreatAmericanEclipse.com
- 2022: April 30, South America Google Map from Xavier Jubier
- 2022: October 25, Russia Google Map from Xavier Jubier
- Two Partials of 2022 – https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/2022
- 2023: April 20 Southeast Asia
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- Google Map from Xavier Jubier
- https://nationaleclipse.com/maps/map_04202023.html
- April 20 Total Eclipse (hybrid) Google Map from Xavier Jubier
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- 2024: October 2 Annular Solar Eclipse
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Annular eclipse of October 14, 2023
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2024: April 8 Total eclipse
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Fred Espenak’s Google eclipse maps for every solar eclipse from -1999 to +3000
- Meteorological/Cloudiness Maps
- August 12, 2026 Greenland, Iceland, northern Spain (Xavier Jubier map)
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/xSE_GoogleMap3.php?Ecl=+20260812&Acc=2&Umb=1&Lmt=1&Mag=1&Max=1&Map=ROADMAP - Three Consecutive Years of Eclipse Chasing in Spain
- August 2, 2027 Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia (Xavier Jubier map)
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/xSE_GoogleMap3.php?Ecl=+20270802&Acc=2&Umb=1&Lmt=1&Mag=1&Max=1&Map=ROADMAP&Lat=42.43924&Lng=-3.93913&Zoom=4&LC=1 - Three Consecutive Years of Eclipse Chasing in Spain
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Michael Bakich“The Next 20 Years of Solar Eclipses” in the September 2021 Astronomy Magazine Astronomy-20 years of eclipses
2020 Eclipses
- 2020: December 14, Pacific Ocean, Chile, Argentina, Atlantic Ocean (total eclipse) , Google Map from Xavier Jubier
- 2020: June 21, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman; Pakistan, India, China, Taiwan (annular eclipse), Google Map from Xavier Jubier
2019 Eclipses
- 2019: December 26, Saudi Arabia, Oman; India and Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore; southernmost Philippines; Guam (annular eclipse) , Google Map from Xavier Jubier
- 2019: July 2, Pacific Ocean, Chile, and Argentina (total eclipse) , Google Map from Xavier Jubier
- 2019 Chile Eclipse Page
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Observations from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
https://www.aura-astronomy.org/news/a-stroke-of-astronomical-luck-for-solar-science/ -
Observations from the European Southern Observatory
August 21, 2017, Eclipse
Basic Eclipse Materials
- Jason Craig and Kevin Hussey’s NASA’s JPL’s Eyes Website
- Jay Anderson’s Weather Statistics for Future Eclipses
- Pasachoff and Fraknoi: Resource Letter on Observing Solar Eclipses, American Journal of Physics, July 2017, Download PDF.
- Pasachoff: Heliophysics at total solar eclipses, Nature Astronomy, August 2017, Download PDF, Online Sharing
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Book reviews of several eclipse-related books (Baron; Aveni; Close; Dvorak; Nordgren; Littmann and Espenak): “four books all anticipate the coming celestial event in different ways.” Nature 545, 409–410 (25 May 2017) doi:10.1038/545409a
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Michael Zeiler and Michael E. Bakich, Atlas of Solar Eclipses: 2020 to 2045 (Great American Eclipse, 2020), 978-1-7345492-0-1; Box 32711, Santa Fe, NM 87594; [email protected]Eclipse Globe 2001-2100, Michael Zeiler and Sky and Telescope, 2020
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Fred Espenak’s EclipseWise.com (updating the “NASA Eclipse Site”)
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Jay Anderson’s weather discussions at eclipsophile.com
Previous Eclipses
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- 2016: Sept 1 Annular Solar Eclipse
- 2016: March 9 Total Solar Eclipse in Indonesia
- 2015: September 15 Eclipse in South Africa
- 2014: April 29 Annular/Partial Eclipse in Antarctica/Australia
- Total Lunar Eclipse of 14/15 April 2014 Simulation by Michael Zeiler
- 2013: November 3 Total Eclipse in Atlantic/Africa
- 2012: Annular and Transit of Venus
- 2011: Four Partial
- 2010: Annular and Total
- 2009: Partial, Annular, & Total
- 2008: Partial, Annular, & Total
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Reference Materials
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- The Sun by Pasachoff and Leon Golub
- Eclipse Map Sites
- Previous Eclipses
- Eclipse Web Sites
- Andy Fraknoi’s ASP Resource Guide
- Dennis Schatz and Andrew Fraknoi’s Solar Science book with student exercises online or for purchase
- Publications
- Satellites and Observatories
- Shadow Bands and Sunspot Numbers
- Miscellaneous Links
- “The Eclipse” by James Fenimore Cooper
- https://sites.williams.edu/eclipse/
- Preview YouTube video What the SUN looks like over 10 years (NASA time lapse)
- General Instructions: Solar Eclipse Spectroscopy Specifications by Robert B Slobins
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Eye Safety and Solar Filters
Sources of Partial-Eclipse-Viewing Filters
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- Thousand Oaks Optical
- Rainbow Symphony
- American Paper Optics
- Baader Planetarium (Germany)
Thousand Oaks Optical and Baader Planetarium can supply sheets of filter material for use on telescopes or for groups.
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Eclipse Resources: Science, Observing, History
- BOOKS, BOOKLETS, AND OTHER RESOURCES FOR THE 2017 ECLIPSE
- Find Jay Pasachoff Publications at: http://Solarcorona.com