Predicting Solar Eclipses with Wolfram Language

10 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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Wolfram Language can compute solar eclipse predictions, including when totality peaks and where it occurs. The speaker plots the 2024 eclipse's path of totality across the U.S., then calculates it covers about one-third of the country's area.

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April 10, 2024

0.33 (about one-third)

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Predicting eclipses and old business. These days it's easy to find out when the next solar eclipse will be. Indeed, it's built right into orphan language. It's just a function that tells you tells you the time of greatest eclipse of the next eclipse type. In solar eclipse, you get a date out. It's also easy to find out and plot where the region of totality will be. Just have a geolispot of solar eclipse of total phase polygon and you've got this big stripe going across the US in the case of the upcoming eclipse, could for example, determine the total area of totality, including, well, lots of ocean and some of Canada that the total area of the eclipse will be about a third the area of the us. Just can compute that with geo area of the solar eclipse polygon divided by Geo area of USA and the answer is 0.33.