XAVIER JUBIER - ÉCLIPSES

The site of Xavier Jubier, a great specialist in solar eclipses and lunar eclipses, is absolutely essential for looking for complete and accurate information about these phenomena, as well as tips to see them! At first, very austere, or even a little complicated side in the pages, this tool is not so complex to use as it often reduces from the main page, the solar or lunar eclipse sought, and then to decorate the information provided on page after it. There are a whole series of maps and informative diagrams about the local circumstances of the phenomenon (start, maximum and end hours), medium cloud covers (therefore the probability of having or not good weather), animations on the trajectory of the Moon shadow, images of the areas to be preferred to observe in the best conditions… and especially interactive maps involving Google Earth satellite images and the moon shadow in particular (so you can walk around the Earth's surface and zoom in with great precision to know the best places to observe!). Armed with these valuable data, the tourist astronomer can leave in peace with a good level of certainty to benefit from the phenomenon.