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      • Cosmic beasts and where to find them
      • AfAS Press release on the annular solar eclipse
      • 20 May 2019
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Newsletters

First issue of the AfAS Newsletter: September 2019

Second issue of the AfAS Newsletter: September 2020

Third issue of the AfAS Newsletter: July 2021

Solar Eclipse 2020

The AfAS Eclipse page
Online broadcasts
Download our resource material
Podcast at Cosmic Savannah
Eclipse Android App
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
Protection and safety
Safe eclipse viewing: the pin-hole
Easy pin-hole methods to view the eclipse
Telescope projection and eclipse glasses
Upcoming solar eclipses
Online resources
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Foreword from AfAS
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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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