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ANNULAR and TOTAL ECLIPSE 23-24

How does the man on the moon cut his hair?      Eclipse it.

ECLIPSE RESOURCES

View an animation of what the eclipse will look like in Atlanta on April 8 HERE.

​FUN FACTS ABOUT THE SOLAR ECLIPSE:
  • If the moon and the sun didn’t take up about the same amount of space in the sky, we wouldn’t have a total solar eclipse. Fortunately, the moon happens to be both about 400 times smaller than the sun and 400 times closer to Earth, so it fits just right!
  • The moon is moving away from Earth a tiny bit each year. At the current rate, the moon will appear too small to cause a total solar eclipse in 600 million years.
  • The shadow of the moon will travel at more than 1,500 miles per hour as it crosses Earth during April’s total solar eclipse.
  • Right before totality, you might see bright specks of light at the edge of the moon’s shadow. These are called Bailey’s Beads, and they’re caused by the last rays of the sun shooting between mountains on the moon’s surface.
  • After April’s spectacle, the next total solar eclipse to cross the contiguous U.S. will not occur until 2044—20 years from now! In that eclipse, the path of totality will cover only parts of Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota.  HOW OLD WILL YOU BE IN 2044?
From left to right, these images show a total solar eclipse, annular solar eclipse, and partial solar eclipse. A hybrid eclipse appears as either a total or an annular eclipse (the left and middle images), depending on the observer’s location. Credits: Total eclipse (left): NASA/MSFC/Joseph Matus; annular eclipse (center): NASA/Bill Dunford; partial eclipse (right): NASA/Bill Ingalls
Difference between a solar and lunar eclipse
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Viewing Safety and Indirect Viewing Methods
Click on the Moon Journal below to download the file:
Click on image for Eclipse Chalk Art activity 
How can the little moon hide the big sun?
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