But this is the least interesting and [least] dramatic part of the eclipse. The more important and photogenic partial and total phases will be visible from all of North America with the exception of Alaska.
"Fred Espenak" (born 1953) is a retired United States/American astrophysicist. He worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He is best known for his work on eclipse predictions.
Espenak earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Wagner College, Staten Island, where he worked in the planetarium. His master's degree is from the University of Toledo, based on studies he did at Kitt Peak Observatory of eruptive and flare stars among red dwarfs.
Espenak is the author of several canonical works on eclipse predictions, such as the Fifty Year Canon of Solar Eclipses: 1986–2035 and Fifty Year Canon of Lunar Eclipses: 1986–2035. He also publishes eclipse bulletins for NASA.
He is co-author with Jean Meeus of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, October 2006. This work covers all types of solar eclipses (partial, total, annular, or hybrid) from 2000 BC to AD 3000.
Asteroid 14120 Espenak is named in his honour.
More Fred Espenak on Wikipedia.I had a great view, out in my backyard with a couple of telescopes.
Quite coincidentally, the first tract of Angolan land to experience totality was also within the path of the total solar eclipse of 2001, June 21.
Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are completely safe to watch.
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