External Eclipse & Soundscape Ecology Resources

This page contains links to external websites about solar eclipses, eclipse safety, eclipse maps, eclipse observing, soundscapes, and Soundscapes Ecology. When you click on a website description, that website will open in another window. We hope you find these website links helpful!

Solar Eclipses

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!

Eclipse Observing

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