Learn about the Upcoming Solar Eclipses (with Andrew Fraknoi) - Livestream

Two dramatic eclipses of the Sun are coming to North America during the 2023-24 school year - an annular (“ring of fire”) eclipse Oct. 14, 2023 and a total eclipse Apr. 8, 2024. People in two narrow paths will have the full eclipse experience each time. Everyone else (an estimated 500 million people, including all of us in the Bay Area) will see a nice partial eclipse, where the Moon covers a good part of the Sun. Learn more about these upcoming solar eclipses with astronomer Andrew Fraknoi!

Fraknoi’s talk will describe how eclipses come to be (and why they are total only on Earth), what scientists learn during eclipses, exactly when and where the eclipses of 2023 and 2024 will be best visible, and how to observe the eclipses and the Sun safely.

Speaker: Andrew Fraknoi retired a few years ago as the chair of the astronomy department at Foothill College and still teaches short, noncredit courses on astronomy at the University of San Francisco and SF State.

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