Road Atlas for the Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 - Black and White Edition

Download or read book Road Atlas for the Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 - Black and White Edition written by Fred Espenak and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Monday, 2017 August 21, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from the contiguous United States for the first time since 1979. The track of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in the Pacific Ocean and crosses the nation from west to east through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North and South Carolina. Inside the 70-mile-wide path of totality, the Moon will completely cover the Sun as the landscape is plunged into an eerie twilight and the Sun's glorious corona is revealed for nearly 3 minutes. Outside the narrow shadow track, a partial eclipse will be visible from all of North America.Road Atlas for the Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 - Black & White Edition contains a comprehensive series of 37 detailed maps of the path of totality across the USA. The large scale (1 inch = 11 miles) shows both major and minor roads, towns and cities, rivers, lakes, parks, national forests, wilderness areas and mountain ranges. The path of totality on each map is depicted as a lightly shaded region with the northern and southern limits clearly identified. The total eclipse can be seen only inside this path - the closer one gets to the central line of the path, the longer the total eclipse lasts. Gray lines inside the path mark the duration of the total eclipse in 20 second steps. This makes it easy to estimate the duration of totality from any location in the eclipse path.Armed with this atlas and the latest weather forecasts, the road warrior is ready to chase totality no matter where along the 2500-mile-long path it takes him/her. This mobile strategy offers the highest probability of witnessing the spectacular 2017 total eclipse in clear skies.The Road Atlas is the complementary publication of "Eclipse Bulletin: Total solar Eclipse of 2017 August 21."