Luke's Eclipse Viewer Homepage

These pages are dedicated to the appreciation of a bit of astronomical arcana, the eclipse viewer. Included are eclipse viewers from more than a dozen eclipses from 1796 to 2005.

Choose a date below... please note that many of the eclipse viewer pages also have photographs of people watching those particular eclipses, also from my collection.

July 31, 1796

February 12, 1831

September 21, 1922

September 10, 1923

January 4, 1925 eclipse watched by Williams Jennings Bryan

July 9, 1945

November 23, 1946

July 20, 1963

Day's Jewelry Company & WGAN-TV

Eclipse Viewer

February 26, 1979

 

 

The backgrounds photograph is of a partial eclipse of the sun, taken with a digital camera through a welder's mask, in Kivalina, Alaska, May 30, 2003. Photograph © Luke W. Cole.
 

 

 

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