Eclipse Facts
USA Today's Eclipse Checklist- even addresses taking photos/videos with your phone!
Click here to see an interview with Former NASA Astronaut Mike Missimino on the Eclipse
Click Here for NASA's Who, What, Where and When of the Eclipses
Click Here for Nasa's live feed
Click here for How to photograph time-lapses of the solar eclipse
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Eclipse Artists
Howard Russell Butler was considered the Painter of the Sun. At a time when photography could not yet capture the nuances of the eclipsed sun, Butler’s paintings were a tour de force, providing astronomers and the public with perhaps the best record of eclipses at the time. Click the button above to see more samples of his work and explore his legacy.
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Click on the images below to go to the Princeton University Art Museum's Transient Affects Exhibit and the Eclipses in Art to find more information on the artist, artwork and process behind its creation.
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Click to watch the music video of David Bowie's Blackstar or for more information on the artist and video go to this site.
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Illuminated Manuscript, Ottoman Turkish
"Solar Eclipse," from Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini
ca. 1203–1283 (author) and Muhammad ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-'i Nathani (scribe),
Turkish Book of the Wonders of Creation
1121 AH/AD 1717
Ink and pigments on European laid paper
Walters Art Museum W.659.13b
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A contemporary film by George Méliés, French, 1861–1938
L'Éclipse du Soleil en Pleine Lune (The Eclipse, the Courtship of the Sun and Moon), 1907 Click Here to see more background to the film and its muse H. Butler |
Yucatan, Mexico,
Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, 1775–1800;
Paper, orginally bound in leather (today in marble boards),
Spanish or Castilian and Mayan languages,
55 20 x 15 cm leaves,
Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library,
Said to have been acquired from Julio Berzuna in 1945
No.4
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Eclipse Folklore
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2017 Solar Eclipse
Click Smithsonian Images above to see the Smithsonian's "Stunning Photos Capture the Solar Eclipse Across America". This stellar phenomenon delighted millions as it transited across the United States
By Ben Panko smithsonian.com August 21, 2017 |
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