The Great Eclipse – Part 5 – Book Review

Your Guide to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse –  by Michel Bakich – Springer International Publishing – 395 pages – $23.17

Your Guide is exhaustive.  It gives good advice on every topic of viewing a solar eclipse: choosing a site, what to bring, and what to expect.  It even points out the importance of taking a restroom break well before totality!

Many topics are covered in this large book, such as:

• Science and history of eclipses.
• Detailed weather prospects for the localities along the path of totality.
• Photography – Although the author cautions that one can miss the eclipse by getting distracted with photography, he tells us how to get good images.
• Binoculars and telescopes.
• Safe viewing devices for the partial phases of the eclipse. Many of these viewers can be made at home at very little cost.

If you wanted to buy only one book about the August 21, 2017 eclipse, this one should cover all your needs.  Even if you won’t be viewing the total eclipse this August, Your Guide is still very interesting and informative.

Keep looking up!

John