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Acadia University 117, 155 Carrington, Richard 86 Adirondack Science Camp 142 Cecil, Gerald 157 Agung, volcano 114, 116 Chaldeans 18, 28 Aldous, Jim 164 Charles III, Spain 52 Amateur astronomers Association 154 Christmas Day 162 American Airlines 106 Chromosphere 83 Anaxagoras 67 Clyde, 14-inch telescope 113 Anaximander 67 Collins, Peter 159 Anomalistic 29 Contact, in eclipse 171 Anomalistic 170 Copernicus crater 101 Antarctica 2 Corona 171 Antarctica eclipse 163 Coronal flare 3 Aphelion 170 Coronal loops 85 Apogee 170 Coronal mass ejections 85 Arc minute 170 Crommelin, Andrew C.D. 29 Arc second 170 Cupid, a Questar 143 Archilocus 67 Archinal, Brent 157 Danjon, Andre´-Louis 113, 115 Ascending node 171 Danjon scale 113–114, 115, 116, 171 Astrof, Paul 7 Davies, John 4 Dawn Princess, ship 161 Baily, Francis 73 Dee, John 14 Baily’s Beads 57, 73–74, 97, 171 Descending node 171 Baker, Lonny 159 Draconic month 29, 171 Baptistina asteroid 102 Dunham, David 59 Black drop effect 145 Brazil, 1919 expedition to 23 Eclipse, as inspiration 1 central 47 Callisto 166 Eclipse comet, 1882 78–79 Camp Minnowbrook 109–110, 155 Eclipse from airplane 105–106

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Eclipse season 30, 171 Jedicke, Dianne 144, 161 Eclipse year 31 Jedicke, Peter 144, 161 Eclipse-O-Scope 75 Jorgensen, Carl 157 Eclipses, solar, total 60–97 30, 171 K corona 85 E-corona 85 King Lear 9 Edberg, Stephen J. 35, 81, 164 Kitt Peak National Observatory 163 Eddington, Sir Arthur 18–24, 66 Edward III, Shakespeare 35 La Paz, Mexico 159 Einstein, Albert 17–24 Lake, William, QC 153 Enright, Leo 60 Las Cruces NM 156 Eppstein, Lothar 110 Le Gentil, Guillaume 145 29, 171 Leadbeater, Robin 78 Levy, Nathaniel 109 F corona 85 Levy, Wendee 156 Flare 172 Local supercluster, galaxies 108 Flash spectrum 84–85 Fraunhofer Corona 85 Mach band 147 Fujihara, Gary 43 Mach, Ernst 146 Madrid, Spain 51, 64 Ganung Agung, volcano 27 Maor, Eli 141, 145 Ganymede 165 Marco Polo, ship 163 Greatest eclipse 172 Markarian’s chain 115 Green Acres Day Camp 152 Mauna Kea 163 Griese, John 160 Maunder minimum 115 McGill University 153 Haas, Walter 26 Meier, Rolf 157 Hale–Bopp, Comet 107, 161 Mercury 165 Hamlet 107 Messier 101 (M101) 113 Hansen, Todd 159 Meteor, as inspiration 1 Hardy, Thomas 112 Metonic cycle 29 Helmet streamers 85 Minnowbrook saros 111 Hunter, Carol 159 Minnowbrook, Camp 109–110, 111, 165 Hunter, Tim 146, 159 Molson stadium, McGill 153 Hyades, cluster 19 Month, derivation of term 27 Hyakutake, Comet 105, 161 Montreal 143, 144, 146, 153 Hybrid eclipse 172 Montreal Alouettes football 153 Hyperstar lens 113 Mt. Agung, volcano 114, 116 Mueller, Jean 159 29, 172 International Occultation Association 119 Nanette’s River asterism 38 Node, ascending 27 James I, fun with eclipses 11–12 Node, descending 25 Jarnac Observatory 65 Novolazarevskaya, Antarctica 64

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O’Meara, Stephen James 43, 45–50, 83, 162 Shakespeare’s eclipse, path 13 Occultations 111, 172 Shoemaker, Carolyn 101, 159 Owl, great horned 37 Shoemaker, E. M. 159 Smith, Brad 160 Palomar Mountain 159 SOHO spacecraft 78, 86 Papacosmas, Constantine 154, 156 Soma, M. 58 Peltier, Leslie 164 Stein, Dr. Lawrence 144, 146 Peltier eclipse 1918 60–63 Straight Wall, feature 116 Penumbra 172 Streamers, in corona 85 Penumbral lunar eclipses 101–106 Synodic month 29, 172, 173 Perigee 172 Perihelion 172 Terenzoni, Michael 107 Pinatubo volcano 159 Tewfik, eclipse comet 79 Pingre´, Alexandre-Gui 145 Tombaugh, Clyde 160 Pinhole projector 39 Tombaugh, Patsy 160 Prominences 83 Toronto Argonauts football 153 Transit 173 Regal Empress, ship 161 Tritos 173 Relativity eclipse, 1919 18 Tycho crater 101, 102, 116 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 155 Royal Victoria Hospital 155 Umbra 173

San Francisco, CA 158 Van den Bergh, George 30 Saros 27–29, 172 Venus 69 Sato, I. 58 Schreiber, Keith 118 Wacker, Charles 3 Scovil, Charles 160 Winnipeg, Manitoba 64 Shadow bands 69–72 Shakespeare, William 2, 32 Yucata´n Peninsula 102

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