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Solar Eclipse 2020

The AfAS Eclipse page
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AfAS press release on the eclipse

Introduction to solar eclipses
Annular Solar Eclipses
Why are eclipses rare events
21 June 2020 eclipse – where and when
Table of eclipse timings
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Safe eclipse viewing: the pin-hole
Easy pin-hole methods to view the eclipse
Telescope projection and eclipse glasses
Upcoming solar eclipses
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The call for a Pan-African professional society of astronomers goes back several years. In 2008 both Peter Martinez (South Africa) and Pius Okeke (Nigeria) published articles on ways to develop astronomy in Africa, the latter specifically calling for the formation of a Pan-African African Astronomical Society…READ MORE

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