Totality: Eclipses of the Sun, Updated with Guides to Total Eclipses from 2009 Through 2017
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 2009
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Wrappers. Pictorial spine and covers are all clean and glossy. Book has just a trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the extreme tips of the outside corners. Faint rub in a couple isolated places around the outside edges. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 341 pages. Illustrated with photographs, maps, charts, graphs, diagrams, etc. throughout.
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- Title
- Totality: Eclipses of the Sun, Updated with Guides to Total Eclipses from 2009 Through 2017
- Author
- Littmann, Mark with Fred Espenak and Ken Willcox
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- NF
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 019956552X
- ISBN 13
- 9780199565528
- Edition
- Third Edition, First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Science & Nature
Totality: Eclipses of the Sun is the best guide and reference book on solar eclipses ever written. It explains: how to observe them; how to photograph and videotape them; why they occur; their history and mythology; and future eclipses - when and where to see them
Totality also tells the remarkable story of how eclipses shocked scientists, revealed the workings of the Sun, and made Einstein famous. And the book shares the experiences and advice of many veteran eclipse observers.
Totality: Eclipses of the Sun is profusely illustrated with stunning photographs (many in color) and more than a hundred maps and diagrams. It can be read by lay people and astronomers with ease and enjoyment.
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About the Author
Fred Espenak is the most widely recognized name in solar eclipses. He is an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, where he founded and runs the NASA Eclipse Home Page, the most consulted website for eclipse information for people around the globe. Two years before each total solar eclipse he issues a NASA bulletin of technical information, maps, weather data and commentary. Espenak also writes regularly on eclipses for Sky & Telescope and is one of the best known of eclipse photographers. He leads expeditions for every total solar eclipse wherever it is in the world and has done for more than 35 years. In 2003, the International Astronomical Union honored Espenak and his eclipse work by naming asteroid 14120 after him.
The late Ken Willcox was a polymer chemist for Phillips Petroleum with a lifetime passion for astronomy. A frequent speaker at astronomical meetings, he also taught physics and astronomy classes at Barlesville Wesleyan College. In 1988, Willcox was elected President of the Astronomical League and he also served on the board of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Willcox witnessed his first total eclipse of the Sun in 1979. That event inspired him to collaborate with Mark Littmann on a comprehensive guide to eclipses in preparation for the great toal eclipse of 1991. The resulting book, Totality: Eclipses of the Sun, was hailed as the best popular reference on the subject ever published. Littmann and Willcox asked Espenak to join them in expanding and updating the second edition of Totality which was published by Oxford University Press in May 1999. Unfortunately, Willcox lost his fight to bone cancer before he could see the second edition in print.
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