Partial Eclipse 2024: eBooks

Total solar eclipses (TSEs) are impressive astronomical events that have attracted people's curiosity since ancient times. Their abrupt alterations to the radiation balance have stimulated studies on "eclipse meteorology," most of them documenting events in the Northern Hemisphere while only one TSE (23 November 2003) has been described over Antarctica.

Solar and lunar eclipses are indeed the first astronomical phenomena which have been recorded since very early antiquity. The forthcoming American total solar eclipse of 8 April 2024 will be probably the eclipse with the largest mediatic impact of the history; we wish that also the scientific impulse toward solar physics and astronomy will be relevant, and the measure of the solar diameter with Baily's beads is indeed one of the topics significantly related to the Sun–Earth connections.

As humans have evolved on Earth, many naturally occurring events — earthquakes, volcanoes, destructive weather — have struck fear into their hearts. At the top of the list, though, may be the disappearance of the life-giving sun from the midday sky during a total solar eclipse.