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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
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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. You may
contact the authors with
questions about the eclipse
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