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Public Education in Developing Countries on the Occasions of Eclipses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Jay M. Pasachoff
Jay M. Pasachoff*
Affiliation:
Hopkins Observatory, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]://www.Williams.edu/astronomy/eclipses

Abstract

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Total solar eclipses will cross southern Africa on June 21, 2001, and on December 4, 2002. Most of Africa will see partial phases. The total phase of the 2001 eclipse will be visible from parts of Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Madagascar. The total phase of the 2002 eclipse will be visible from parts of Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique. Public education must be undertaken to tell the people how to look at the eclipse safely. We can take advantage of having the attention of the people and of news media to teach about not only eclipses but also the rest of astronomy. I am Chair of a “Public Education at Eclipses” subcommission of IAU Commission 46 on the Teaching of Astronomy, and we are able to advise educators and others about materials, procedures and information releases.

Type
Section 3: Initiatives in Astronomy Education
Information
Transactions of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 24 , Issue 3: Special session: Astronomy for Developing Countries , 2001 , pp. 101 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2001

References

Pasachoff, Jay M., 1996, Public Education and Solar Eclipses, in Gouguenheim, L., McNally, D., and Percy, J. R., eds., New Trends in Astronomy Teaching, IAU Colloquium 162 (London), published 1998, pp. 202–204.Google Scholar
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