On 8/20/2017 9:18 PM, jmcquown wrote:

>
> I've seen partial solar eclipses in my lifetime.* That's why one of my
> elementary school teachers taught us to make a pinhole camera.
>
> I've seen a bunch of lunar eclipses.* Given all the media attention
> about this solar eclipse you'd think one had never happened before.
>
> Jill

I think it is a big deal because it is cutting across a lot of people
and it generates a lot of publicity. There are people that travel to
obscure places around the world to see them.

I'm amazed at what goes into predicting the time and place 40 to 100
years in the future. More math than I'm interested in doing.