{"id":1905,"date":"2024-04-08T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T19:03:52","slug":"april-8th-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/2024\/04\/08\/april-8th-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"April 8th Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A solar eclipse is coming. This longer than normal eclipse is bringing a storm of excitement for the lower 48. We won\u2019t see this one, but you have plenty of time to get your eclipse viewing supplies ready for the next eclipse that will be visible in Alaska on March 28, 2033.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grab your solar eclipse viewing device, semicircular snacks and log in to the Consortium Library to do your research. Learn all about the upcoming eclipse and its trajectory in the journal <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/publication\/6214?decadeSelected=2020%20-%202029&amp;yearSelected=2024&amp;monthSelected=05&amp;issueNameSelected=02024Y04Y01%2423Apr%2B2024%243b%2B%2BVol.%2B52%2B%24284%2429\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAstronomy\u201d April 2024, Vol. 52, Issue 4<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. You can find the journal in our ProQuest Database. Want to know more about Astronomy? On the main Consortium Library page go to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.consortiumlibrary.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guides<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. There is a Topic Guide for<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.consortiumlibrary.org\/astronomy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Astronomy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which has a link to NASA\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/astropix.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Check out the journal \u201cSky and Telescope\u201d or use one of our databases like \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/science?accountid=14473\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ProQuest Science and Technolog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">y\u201d to find out why a solar eclipse can only happen during a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/science\/docview\/2890077538\/fulltext\/14E99B89E8444E79PQ\/1?accountid=14473&amp;sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> new moon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or search how to take a good <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/science\/docview\/2925096985\/B0FD6D8969604D02PQ\/2?accountid=14473&amp;sourcetype=Magazines\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">photo of the eclipse with your phone<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Read about the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2076-2615\/10\/4\/587\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">unusual behavior<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d in animals during an eclipse to plan for your own study in 2033.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alaska may miss the solar eclipse but we are getting some great northern lights. Check out UAF\u2019s Geophysical Institute <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gi.alaska.edu\/monitors\/aurora-forecast\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aurora Forecast<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to find out where and when to see the northern lights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solar eclipse is coming. This longer than normal eclipse is bringing a storm of excitement for the lower 48. We won\u2019t see this one, but you have plenty of time to get your eclipse viewing supplies ready for the next eclipse that will be visible in Alaska on March 28, 2033.\u00a0\u00a0 Grab your solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}