EQUIDISTANT CYLINDRICAL PROJECTION MAPS OF THE ECLIPSE PATH
Figures 4,
5,
6, and
7,
all use a simple equidistant cylindrical
projection scaled for the central latitude of each map. They all use
high resolution coastline data from the World Data Base II (WDB)
and World Vector Shoreline (WVS) data bases and have a scale of
1:4,452,000. These maps were chosen to isolate small regions along
the entire land portion of the eclipse path. Once again, curves of
maximum eclipse and constant eclipse magnitude are included as
well as the outline of the umbral shadow. A special feature of these
maps are the curves of constant umbral eclipse duration (i.e.,
totality) which are plotted within the path. These curves permit fast
determination of approximate durations without consulting any
tables. Furthermore, city data from a recently enlarged geographic
data base of over 90,000 positions are plotted to give as many
locations as possible in the path of totality. Local circumstances have
been calculated for these positions and can be found in Tables 9
through 15.
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