NASA Solar Eclipse Bulletins

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

Bibliography

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Littmann, M., K. Willcox, and F. Espenak, 1999: Totality, Eclipses of the Sun, Oxford University Press, New York, 268 pp.

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Further Reading on Eye Safety

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