Foreword; Preface; Notes on Units of Measure; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Celestial Shadows; The Shadows Form; The Anatomy of Shadows; Turning Shadows into Events; A Surfeit of Eclipse Events; An Eclipse Every Night; Making Contact; The Earth's Family, Artificial and Natural; The Solar Family; Planetary Transits: Specks on the Sun; Occultations: When Blocking the Light is Helpful; Seeking Shadows; The Rewards of Persistence; Threat from the Sun; In the Right Place at the Right Time; Equipment: Organic, Optical and Electronic; What Good are They?

Chapter 2: Of Orbs and OrbitsEvent Awareness; For Your Eyes Only; Tracking the Wanderers; The Universe in 3-D; The Sun Takes Center Stage; An Elliptical Path; The Solar System Takes Shape; Seeing the Universe with New Eyes; Chapter 3: In Earth's Shadow; Unrecognized Eclipses; Who Owns the Moon?; Predicting, Explaining, Applying; Shades of Lunar Eclipses; A Lunar Eclipse Unfolds; Lunar Eclipse Science; Before the Telescope; A Shadow Too Large; A Shadow Deformed; Totality Not Total; The Spectrum of a Shadow; Inconstant Umbrae; A Sudden Chill; Can Eclipses Affect the Moon?

Inventorying the Moon's NeighborhoodChapter 4: The Lunar Eclipse Experience; What the Future Holds: 2014-2025; Subtleties of the Penumbra; Lunar Eclipses in Practice; Record-Keeping; Photography; Photometry; Umbral Contact Timing; Transient Events; Meteoritic Impacts; Sharing Your Work; Chapter 5: To Darken the Earth; Solar Spectacle; Solar Eclipse Enlightenment; A Solar Eclipse as Seen from Above the Earth; A Representative Total Solar Eclipse: 2017 August 21; An Eclipse's Family: Saros 145; Solar Eclipses Unveiled; The Catch-as-Catch-Can Era; Eclipses Tamed

The Golden Age of Solar Eclipse Science Eclipses Go Global: 1868-1870; Big (Solar Eclipse) Science; The Eclipse Profession; Twentieth-Century Developments; General Relativity and Solar Eclipses; The Solar Atmosphere; Artificial Eclipses; The Spectroscope and Its Descendants; Coronagraphs; Air and Space; Eclipse Science Today; Chapter 6: Approaching Shadows; The Eclipse Experience; Solar Safety; Photospheric Precautions; Safe Filters; Projection; Monochromatic Telescopes; Dangerous Practices; The Course of Events; Partial to Partiality; A Ring of Fire; Totally Awesome

Appreciating and RecordingUsing Your Eyes; Photography; Eclipse Movies; Sky Brightness; Hunting the Picturesque; Shadows of the Future; 2014 April 29 Annular Eclipse; 2015 March 20 Total Eclipse; 2016 March 08-09 Total Eclipse (See Fig. 6.7); 2016 September 01 Annular Eclipse (See Fig. 6.8); 2017 February 26 Annular Eclipse (See Figs. 6.8-6.9); 2017 August 21 Total Eclipse (See Fig. 6.6); 2019 July 02 Total Eclipse (See Fig. 6.9); 2019 December 26 Annular Eclipse (See Figs. 6.7 and 6.8); 2020 June 21 Annular Eclipse (See Fig. 6.8); 2020 December 14 Total Eclipse (See Fig. 6.9)