Totality -- The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024

Totality: The Great American Eclipses is a complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, total eclipses of the Sun. It focuses on the eclipses of August 21, 2017 and April 8, 2024 that pass across the United States. The U.S. mainland has not experienced a total solar eclipse since 1979. This book provides information, photographs, and illustrations to help the public understand and safely enjoy all aspects of these eclipses including:SC How to observe a total eclipse of the SunSC How to photograph and video record an eclipseSC Why solar eclipses happenSC The earliest attempts to understand and predict eclipsesSC The mythology and folklore of eclipsesSC The response of animals to total solar eclipsesSC The response of man to total eclipses through timeSC How scientists used total eclipses to understand how the Sun worksSC How astronomers used a total solar eclipse in 1919 to confirm Einstein's general theory of relativitySC Weather prospects for the 2017 eclipseSC Detailed maps of the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse and the eclipses of 2018 through 2024SC Precise local times for the eclipses of 2017 and 2024 (the next total solar eclipse to visit the U.S.)SC Color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and charts to illustrate and explain total solar eclipses SC Global maps of total solar eclipses from 2017 to 2045 and lists of total and annual solar eclipses from 1970 through 2070