Racing the Moon’s Shadow with Concorde 001

• Main Author: Léna, Pierre (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

This is the unique story of  observing a total solar exlipse 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 rush...

Table of Contents:

• Of eclipses and mankind
• Concorde, a dream taking off
• Clear obscurity
• Towards the longest eclipse in history
• Nothing to worry, it's just an eclipse
• What a harvest of science in just 74 minutes
• The route of solar eclipses
• Epilogue
• Appendices.