Internet Resources
Adapted from Appendix E - Totality: Eclipses of the Sun
©Copyright 1999 by Mark Littmann, Ken Willcox and Fred Espenak
Below is a brief list of eclipse-related resources available
through 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) -
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html
Information on 5,000 years of solar and lunar eclipses, photography, observer reports, and more.
- 1999 Total Solar Eclipse Page (Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC) -
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TSE1999/TSE1999.html
Detailed maps, tables, and weather for the 1999 total solar eclipse.
- 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 solar
eclipses.
- 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 (Worachate
Boonplod).
- 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.htm
The 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 of
it 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
Solar Eclipse Mailing Lists
Lunar Eclipses
Astronomy Resources
- Amateur Astronomy Clubs -
www.aspsky.org/html/resources/amateur.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 -
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TYPE/TYPE.html
Fred Espenak's tables of planet, Sun, and Moon positions, dates of Moon
phases, 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)
Eclipse Tours & Expeditions
Travel Advisories
Maps
Weather Information
©Copyright 1999 by Mark Littmann, Ken Willcox and Fred Espenak.
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Totality - Eclipses of the Sun
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Last revised: 2005 Mar 15