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Public Information Project of the Total Solar Eclipse of November 3, 1994 in Paraná State, Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

R.H. Trevisan
R.H. Trevisan*
Affiliation:
University of Londrina, Campus Universitário-Londrina - Paraná -CEP 86051-970, Brazil

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This project had two principal objectives: to communicate safe methods to observe the Sun, so as to prevent ophthalmological accidents to people during the total solar eclipse of 3rd November 1994, and to collaborate with the primary school teachers in the science classroom, illustrating the classes, motivating the students to observe sky phenomena.

In January 1993, a commission called “ECLIPSE 94“Executive Commission, of the Brazilian Astronomical Society was created to coordinate assistance with arrangements for observing the total solar eclipse of 3rd November 1994, that in Brazil was total in the western part of Paraná State, in Santa Catarina State and in a Rio Grande do Sul zone. Professional astronomers from Brazil and from several parts of the world were mobilized to observe this eclipse.

Type
Section Five
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 162: New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , 1998 , pp. 197 - 201
Copyright
Copyright © 1996

References

Matsuura, O. The Divulgation Norms of the Eclipse 94 Brazilian Campaign, personal communication.Google Scholar