Table of Contents

• Preface
• Eclipse Predictions
  • Introduction
  • Path and Visibility
  • General Maps of the Eclipse Path
    • Orthographic Projection Map of the Eclipse Path
    • Stereographic Projection Map of the Eclipse Path
    • Equidistant Conic Projection Map of the Eclipse Path
  • Elements, Shadow Contacts, and Eclipse Path Tables
  • Local Circumstances Tables
  • Detailed Maps of the Umbral Path
  • Estimating Times of Second and Third Contacts
  • Mean Lunar Radius
  • Lunar Limb Profile
  • Limb corrections to the Path Limits: Graze Zones
  • Saros History
• Weather Prospects for the Eclipse
  • Overview
  • What Controls the Weather?
  • Details of the Weather
  • The Pacific Coast of Peru and Chile
  • The Bolivian Altiplano and the Andes Mountains
  • Paraguay and the Gran Chaco
  • Eastern Paraguay, Northern Argentina, and Brazil
  • Offshore
  • Summary
• Observing the Eclipse
  • Eye Safety During Solar Eclipses
  • Sky at Totality
  • Eclipse Photography
  • Contact Timings from the Path Limits
  • Plotting the Path on Maps
• Algorithms, Ephemerides, and Parameters
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Figures
• Tables
• Maps of the Umbral Path
• Request Form