NASA Solar Eclipse Bulletins

NASA/TP-2007-214149: Total Solar Eclipse of 2008 August 01

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Section 1. Eclipse Predictions
1. Introduction
2. Umbral Path and Visibility
3. Orthographic Projection Map of the Eclipse Path
4. Stereographic Projection Map of the Eclipse Path
5. Equidistant Conic Projection Map of the Eclipse Path
6. Detailed Maps of the Umbral Path
7. Elements, Shadow Contacts, and Eclipse Path Tables
8. Local Circumstances Tables
9. Estimating Times of Second and Third Contacts
10. Mean Lunar Radius
11. Lunar Limb Profile
12. Limb Corrections to the Path Limits: Graze Zones
13. Saros History
• Section 2. Weather Prospects for the Eclipse
1. Overview
2. The Canadian Archipelago
3. Northern Greenland
4. Spitzbergen Island to the Russian Coast
5. Siberia
6. Local Conditions Around Novosibirsk
7. China
8. Local Conditions Around Hami
9. Local Conditions Near Xi’an
10. Getting Weather Information
1. Sources of Satellite Imagery
2. Forecast Models
11. Summary
• Section 3. Observing the Eclipse
1. Eye Safety and Solar Eclipses
2. Sources for Solar Filters
3. Eclipse Photography
4. Sky at Totality
5. Contact Timings from the Path Limits
6. Plotting the Path on Maps
• Section 4. Eclipse Resources
1. IAU Working Group on Eclipses
2. IAU Solar Eclipse Education Committee
3. Solar Eclipse Mailing List
4. The 2007 International Solar Eclipse Conference
5. NASA Eclipse Bulletins on the Internet
6. Future Eclipse Paths on the Internet
7. NASA Web Site for 2008 Total Solar Eclipse
8. Predictions for Eclipse Experiments
9. Algorithms, Ephemerides, and Parameters

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• Total Solar Eclipse of 2008 August 01 (NASA/TP-2007-214149)

• Preface
• Author's Note
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• Section 1: Eclipse Predictions
• Section 2: Weather Prospects for the Eclipse
• Section 3: Observing the Eclipse
• Section 4: Eclipse Resources
• Acronyms
• Units
• Bibliography

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