Cool map showing the date of the most recent total eclipse for every point in Indiana. Made by the Holcomb Observatory & Planetarium at Butler University.
Great concept, and I'm wondering if anyone has seen a similar map for a larger area, ideally an interactive map for the entire world where you can see the year of the last eclipse wherever you are. The data is available, so surely someone has made such a map?
@alan That is a neat idea, and I'd like to see a wider map too.
You say the data is available. Where? If there's already data for geographic paths of historic and future eclipses, then the map part should be fairly easy. But calculating that data is less easy: I just did a casual search and found some discussions and a few suggested code snippets, but no working code.
@akkana@alan also - would annular eclipses count? I guess if it were interactive you could toggle it but makes calculating them much more complicated. Definitely possible though. @fraser have any ideas?
@sara@akkana@alan Is there a way to get a KMZ of the whole five millennium dataset from that page? (As far as I can tell, the KMZ generator is limited to 4 eclipses at a time)
@kgjenkins@sara@alan I can't figure out how to export anything from that xjubier page. I enter search terms, highlight all the corresponding eclipses, but "Build Google Earth KMZ file" is still greyed out and nonresponsive. Sure enough, if I highlight only four eclipses, the button un-greys.
Keith, I'll try your QGIS plugin suggestion when I'm back home on a more reliable (though slower) net connection.
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