Eclipsed Suns, the Solar Corona and Exoplanets From Concorde 001 to Telescopes in Space /
This is the unique story of observing a total solar eclipse for no less than 74 consecutive minutes. On the summer morning of June 30, 1973, the Sun rises on the Canary Islands. But it is strangely indented by the Moon. The eclipse of the century has just begun. From the west, the lunar shadow rushe...
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2025.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. 2025. |
| Series: | Astronomers' Universe,
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| Acceso en liña: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92199-5 |
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Table of Contents:
- PART I The longest total eclipse ever observed
- Opening
- Chapter 1. Of eclipses and men
- Chapter 2. Concorde, a dream that takes flight
- Chapter 3. This dark light that falls from the stars
- Chapter 4. Towards the longest total eclipse in history
- Chapter 5. No need to be alarmed, it’s simply an eclipse
- Chapter 6. What harvest of science after these 74 minutes?
- Epilogue to Part I
- PART II Solar corona, total eclipses and exoplanets
- Chapter 7 The solar corona (K and F)
- Chapter 8 Debris disks, exoEarths and coronagraphy
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 How total eclipses occur
- Appendix 2 The Concorde plane.