External Eclipse & Soundscape Ecology Resources

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Solar Eclipses

Map of the World with lines on various countries representing eclipse paths

Discover Annular Eclipse Locations and Dates Worldwide

Image of a solar eclipse in which the moon blocls the sun making the sun appear like a black ball with glowing tendrils

Why aren’t there eclipses every month?

Asian man looking confused while staring at his phone.

Eclipse Misconceptions

The Moon has moved in front of the Sun. The Sun’s light is reduced to a thin, bright crescent shining around the Moon’s edge. A phenomenon called Baily’s Beads is also present. Baily’s Beads look like a few glowing pearls at the ends of the crescent.

Annular Eclipse Features

A solar prominence: Fiery loops of hot pink light appear to leap off the moon’s black surface. With the sheer white corona as their backdrop, these pink prominences seem to dance above the moon like lines of liquid neon.

Total Eclipse Features

a collage of planets, rockets, cities, microscope, maps, and science tools symbolizing science and space learning with

What Can We Learn from Solar Eclipses?

Eclipse Safety

A crowd uses handheld solar viewers and solar eclipse glasses to safely view a solar eclipse.

Solar Eclipse Safety – NASA

Child using a special projector to view the eclipse by looking at the ground through a projector to utilize the shadow on the ground to view the eclipse safely.

How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely – American Astronomical Society (AAS)

hands holding eclipse safety glasses

Reputable Vendors of Solar Filters & Viewers – American Astronomical Society (AAS)

Eclipse Maps

Using observations from different NASA missions, this map shows where the Moon’s shadow will cross the U.S. during the 2023 annular solar eclipse and 2024 total solar eclipse. The 2023 annular eclipse path will stretch diagonally across the United States beginning at Oregon and passing in a diagonal southeast direction across parts of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. the 2024 total solar eclipse path stretches across the United States from Texas to Maine. After it enters across Mexico and into Texas, the eclipse path travels across parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The eclipse will enter Canada in Southern Ontario, and continue through Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton.

NASA Map & Info for 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses in the US – Determine where and when for the best eclipse observing!

A series of small state maps that show the path of totality over Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Great American Eclipse – Learn more about the 2024 total solar eclipse in each of the states inside the path of totality!

Map of 2024 Total Solar Eclipse path highlighting Austin, TX as on the 2024 eclipse path and showing the times of the phases in a time table.

Time&Date 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Map – Find the Maximum Phase time in your area

Annular eclipse map highlighting Albuquerque, NM as on the path and listing the eclipse phases times in a table.

Time&Date 2023 Annular Eclipse Map – Find the Maximum Phase time in your area

Map of the United States with a line stretching from Texas to Maine representing the total solar eclipse path. Box in the right corner above the map shows a

Is your city on the 2024 Total Eclipse Path? – Search Tool by Eclipse24.org with links to city sites with eclipse time tables

Map of the United States with a line stretching from Oregon to Texas representing the annular eclipse path. Box in the right corner above the map shows a

Is your city on the 2023 Annular Eclipse Path? – Search Tool by Eclipse24.org with links to city sites with eclipse time tables

Map of the world with thin red lines across various places representing total solar eclipse paths

Discover Total Solar Eclipse Locations and Dates Worldwide

Map showing the total solar eclipse path passing over Southeast Canada and across the United States from Maine to Texas

Interactive April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Path Map

Map of the annular eclipse path crossing North America, from Oregon to Texas, and Central and South America

Interactive October 14, 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse Path Map

Eclipse Observing

Map of the North, Central, and South America with the path of the April 8, 2023 total solar eclipse overlayed.

Help monitor the effects of solar eclipses on wildlife in Central and South America with Sounds in the Darkness

Snowy, wintry view of microphones installed in a binaural configuration to record natural sounds in Yellowstone National Park. Photo courtesy Jacob Job

Deep Listening Brings Rewards by The National Park Service

Child using a special projector to view the eclipse by looking at the ground through a projector to utilize the shadow on the ground to view the eclipse safely.

How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely – American Astronomical Society (AAS)

Soundscapes and Soundscape Ecology

Bernie Krause, an older man standing in front of a picture of a forest as he gives a TED talk

Soundscapes: The voice of the natural world, A TED Talk

Sound Energy Waveform in the form of a bright line zig zagging up and down

The Science of Soundscapes