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30 Wednesday, June 21, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon ECLIPSE: Last total eclipse occurred in 1979 Continued from page 24 At Camp Perry South, reached from Green Ridge Road, the duration of totality will be 1:57. However, Lake Billy Chinook locations are more easily accessible from the east and will probably be very busy on eclipse day. There is an interactive map here: https://eclipse2017. nasa.gov/sites/default/files/ interactive_map/index.html. On this map, you can click on a location and find the time and duration at any location in the U.S. In this area, the total phase of the eclipse will start at about 10:19 a.m. First con- tact, when the partial phase of the eclipse begins, is at about 9:06 a.m. Whether you are at a location comfortably before the eclipse begins or have barely made it into the path of totality, you should start by observing the partial phase of the eclipse using safe eclipse viewing filters. There are many sources of such viewing devices. Sisters Astronomy Club will have a display set up at community events between now and the eclipse date and they will have viewers available for a small donation. The Oregon Observatory in Sunriver has them for a modest donation as well. Any of these devices and other materials specifically labeled for visual observation of the sun can be used. Number 14 welding goggle filters are safe for such observation, too. DO NOT use improvised “filters” such as exposed film or smoked glass. As soon as you can no longer see any of the bright surface of the sun through your filters, you should start observing the total phase with your naked eyes or through a pair of binoculars or a low- power telescope. If you have filters for your binoculars or telescope, take them off as soon as you can no longer see anything through them when looking at the sun. Why don’t we get to see total solar eclipses more often? The last total solar eclipse viewable from Oregon occurred in February, 1979, and the next one viewable within the United States will take place on April 8, 2024. The plane defined by the earth’s orbit around the sun is called the “ecliptic plane” because when the sun, earth and moon are aligned in this plane eclipses occur. The moon’s orbit is inclined at 5 degrees to the ecliptic plane and therefore eclipses of the sun or moon do not occur every month. If it were not so inclined, there would be a lunar and solar eclipse occurring every month: a lunar eclipse every full moon, a solar eclipse every new moon. If the moon’s orbit didn’t also go through some other regular variations, eclipse “seasons” would occur at the same time every year, with one or more partial or total eclipse occurring every six months when the moon’s orbit car- ried it through the plane of the ecliptic. Accurately account- ing for the movements of celestial bodies that cause eclipses is so challenging that Isaac Newton once wrote to Edmond Halley that the theory of the motions of the moon made his head ache and Out West Realty Sandy Goodsell Principal Broker Jonathan Hicks Broker ABR, CDPE, CIAS, GRI, SRES 541-480-0183 865-335-6104 LICENSED BROKERS IN THE STATE OF OREGON goodsellandhickssellcentralor.com REVERSE MORTGAGES HOME LOANS ...AND MORE! Doing Reverse Mortgages in Central Oregon Since 1999 Julie Nash • 541-410-7526 junash@loandepot.com • NMLS ID 789031 loandepot Continued from page 3 GRAPHIC PROVIDED Map of the path of totality in Central Oregon: Blue lines indicate north and south limits of totality; red line is the center line where the duration is maximum. kept him awake so often that he would think of it no more. Sisters Astronomy Club has regular meetings on the third Tuesday of the month, July 18 and August 15 at 7 p.m. in the Sisters Park & Recreation District Coffield Center. The club holds pub- lic star observing programs, Stars over Sisters, at SPRD and the SHS parking lot on July 15, 9 p.m. and August 19, 8:30 p.m. Any of the events will be opportunities for the public to learn more about the stars and celestial events such as the eclipse. The web- site www.sistersastronomy club.org has many links to information about the upcom- ing eclipse and other sites for those interested in astronomy and the night sky. Current astronomical news is regu- larly posted on the Facebook page www.facebook.com/ sistersastronomy. 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