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Adapted from Appendix E - Totality - Eclipses of the Sun

Copyright ©2008 by Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak and Ken Willcox

Below is a brief list of eclipse-related resources availablethrough the internet on the world wide web.

If you have any corrections, additions or updates, please email them to MrEclipse.

Solar Eclipses - General Resources

• Eclipses Home Page (Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC) -
  eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html
  Information on 5,000 years of solar and lunar eclipses, photography, observer reports, and more.

• GSFC Solar Data Analysis Center's Eclipse Information Page -
  umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eclipse/
  Official site for NASA's Solar Eclipse Bulletins by Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson, with information on how to order the bulletins.

• Astronomical Pictures & Animations -
  graffiti.u-bordeaux.fr/MAPBX/roussel/astro.english.html
  Frank Roussel's page has a number of eclipse maps with information.

• Earth View Eclipse Network -
  www.earthview.com/
  Bryan Brewer (author of Eclipse) offers tutorials and information on future solareclipses.

• Eclipse! -
  ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pharrington/sw13.htm
  Phil Harrington (author of Eclipse!) gives information on future eclipses.

• Eclipse Chaser Home Page -
  www.eclipsechaser.com/
  Jeffrey Charles' solar eclipse travelogues, information, and images.

• The Eclipse Zone -
  www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7137/ez.htm
  Information and graphics on eclipses in the near future (WorachateBoonplod).

• IAU Eclipse Home Page -
  www.williams.edu/Astronomy/IAU_eclipses/
  Professor Jay Pasachoff's Internaional Astronomical Union Eclipse Page describes scientific eclipse experiments.

• IOTA Occultations Page - www.sky.net/~robinson/iotandx.htmThe International Occultation Timing Association home page features predictions for lunar occultations and eclipses.

• Sky Online's Eclipse Page -
  www.skypub.com/eclipses/eclipses.shtml
  Sky Publishing Corporation's Eclipse Page provides extensive information, much ofit adapted from the pages of Sky & Telescope magazine.

• Eric's Black Sun Eclipse Website -
  members.aol.com/kcstarguy/blacksun/eclipse.htm
  Eric Flescher's Website provides a variety of information, games, memorabilia and education resources.

Solar Eclipse Filters

• Celestron International, 2835 Columbia St., Torrance, CA 90503.
  phone: (310) 328-9560

• Hands on Optics, PO Box 10025 Rockville, MD. 20898
  phone: (301) 482-0000

• Pocono Mountain Optics, R.R. 6, Box 6329, Moscow, PA 18444.
  phone: (717) 842-1500

• Rainbow Symphony, Inc., 6860 Canby Ave. #120, Reseda, CA 91335
  phone: (818) 708-8400
  www.rainbowsymphony.com/soleclipse.html

• Roger W. Tuthill, Inc., 11 Tanglewood Lane, Mountainside, NJ 07092.
  phone: (908) 232-1786

• Telescope and Binocular Center, P.O. Box 1815, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-1815. (408) 763-7030

• Thousand Oaks Optical, Box 5044-289, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359.
  phone: (805) 491-3642

• Khan Scope Centre, 3243 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6A 2T2.
  phone: (416) 783-4140

• Perceptor Telescopes TransCanada, Schomberg, Ontario, Canada L0G 1T0.
  phone: (905) 939-2313

• American Paper Optics, Inc. 3080 Bartlett Corporate Drive, Bartlett, TN 38133.
  phone: (800) 767-8427

• ASTROSHADES, Technical Arts, Inc.,1133 'D' Street, Ramona, California 92065 USA.
  phone: (760)789-5208

Solar Eclipse Photography

• MrEclipse.com -
  www.MrEclipse.com
  Thirty years of eclipse photography and other astrophotography.

• Wendy Carlos Eclipse Page -
  www.wendycarlos.com/eclipse.html
  Features eclipse-chaser Wendy Carlos' eclipse composite photography.

• High Moon -
  eclipse.span.ch/
  Olivier Staiger's unusual take on eclipses and astronomical events.

• Dale Ireland's Eclipse Page -
  www.drdale.com/eclipses/
  Dale Ireland offers a gallery of both solar and lunar eclipse photographs.

• Digital Eclipse Composites -
  www.astrosurf.com/astropix/HTML/ECLIPSE.HTM
  Jerry Lodriguss's instructions for making computer composites of eclipse photos.

• Solar Eclipse Composites -
  www.alliancerevolution.com/astro/
  Eclipse-chaser Benjamin Gomes-Casseres' digital eclipse composites.

  Solar Eclipse Mailing Lists

  • Earth View Eclipse Mailing List -
    www.earthview.com/resources/mailinglist.htm
    From Bryan Brewer, author of Eclipse.

  • Solar Eclipse Mailing List
    For instructions, e-mail Patrick Poitevin: PPoitevin@village.uunet.be

  Lunar Eclipses

  • Tony Mallama's Lunar Eclipse Page -
    www.serve.com/meteors/mallama/lunarecl/index.html
    Lunar eclipse models predicting apparent visual magnitudes.

  • Lunar Eclipse Observer -
    www.clients.spirit.net.au/~minnah/LEOx.html
    Lunar eclipse observing, Caldwell Lunar Observatory, Australia.

  Astronomy Resources

  • Amateur Astronomy Clubs -
    www.astrosociety.org/resources/linkclubs.html
    Need to know where the nearest astronomy club is? Find it here.

  • Astronomy Net - www.astronomy.net/
    Features forums; links a searchable astronomy database.

  • Astronomy Mall -
    astronomy-mall.com/
    Links to many astronomical products, services, and free classified listings for amateur astronomers.

  • Yahoo Astronomy Links -
    www.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/
    All kinds of links related to astronomy.

  • Planetariums -
    www.aspsky.org/html/resources/planetarium.html
    List of planetariums around the world.

  • Astronomy Magazine -
    www.kalmbach.com/astro/
    Astronomy's home page offers news, sky events, and product information.

  • Astronomy Now Online -
    www.astronomynow.com
    Astronomy Now Magazine's page feature's news, night sky, and astro-listings.

  • Sky Online -
    www.skypub.com/
    Sky & Telescope's page furnishes articles, news, sky events, and links.

  • The Astronomy Cafe -
    www2.ari.net/home/odenwald/cafe.html
    Sten Odenwald's web site for the "astronomically disadvantaged."

  • Abrams Planetarium Skywatcher's Diary -
    www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/diary.html
    Monthly guide to what's happening in the night sky.

  • Earth & Sky Online -
    www.earthsky.com
    Daily guide to what's happening in the night sky.

  • Twelve-Year Planetary Ephemeris: 1995-2006 -
    eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/TYPE/TYPE.html
    Fred Espenak's tables of planet, Sun, and Moon positions, dates of Moonphases, and planetary alignments.

  • Mike Boschat's Astronomy Page -
    www.atm.dal.ca/~andromed/
    Boschat maintains a comprehensive site of astronomy links.

  Used Telescopes (classified ads)

  • AstroMart -
    www.astromart.com/class.html

  Eclipse Tours & Expeditions

  • Astronomy Travel/Spears Travel -
    www.spearstravel.com/Astro.html

  • Explorer Tours -
    www.explorers.co.uk/astro/default.asp

  • S&T and Scientific Expeditions -
    www.skypub.com/market/scienx/scienx.html

  • Wilderness Travel -
    www.wildernesstravel.com

  Travel Advisories

  • Travel Warnings -
    travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html
    Travel alerts issued by the U.S. State Department for American citizens traveling abroad.

  Maps

  • Excite World Maps -
    www.city.net/maps/
    Online maps of every state and country in the world.

  • Microsoft Terra Server -
    terraserver.microsoft.com/
    Satellite imagery for locations around the world.

  • U. S. Geological Survey -
    info.er.usgs.gov/
    Complete topographic maps of the United States.

  • World of Maps -
    www.worldofmaps.com/
    Online map store for maps of any part of the world.

  Weather Information

  • National Weather Service -
    205.156.54.206/
    NOAA's National Weather Service home page.

  • WeatherNet -
    cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
    WeatherNet is one of the the internet's principal sources of weather information.

  • The Weather Underground -
    www.wunderground.com/
    University of Michigan's world forecasts.

  • The Weather Channel -
    www.weather.com
    The Weather Channel's extensive site for U.S.A. and world weather forecasts.

  • IntelliCast Weather -
    www.intellicast.com/weather/intl/
    Latest weather forecasts around the world.

Copyright ©2008 by Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak and Ken Willcox

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