Doesn't tell you magnitude, but it does give guesstimates of local beginnings and endings, and the (I think) transverse Mercator projection doesn't squish out the edges (/cough Hawaii) the way NASA's orthographic does.
(But I suppose that "orthographic centered over greatest eclipse" is easier to automate and involves less human intervention. Damn you, Robot Overlords!)
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ROADTRI…….
BOATTRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I prefer the USNO's solar eclipse diagrams myself.
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/eclipse/map116….
Doesn't tell you magnitude, but it does give guesstimates of local beginnings and endings, and the (I think) transverse Mercator projection doesn't squish out the edges (/cough Hawaii) the way NASA's orthographic does.
(But I suppose that "orthographic centered over greatest eclipse" is easier to automate and involves less human intervention. Damn you, Robot Overlords!)
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<img src="http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0232014/ats_0232014.gif"><img src="http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0322015/ats_0322015.gif">
Where's your god now!?
THE DRAGON IS EATING THE SUN RIGHT NOW AAAAHHHHH RUN RUN
Hey…where'd the virgin go?