A series of public talks at Southern Illinois University Carbondale about the upcoming total solar eclipse concludes Friday, April 5, with a NASA planetary research scientist.
Lou Mayo, a planetary scientist and professor of astronomy at Marymount University, will speak at 3 p.m. at the Guyon Auditorium at Morris Library. He will give a talk titled "Eclipses, Occultations, and Transits".
The free, public event is the final journey to the Eclipse talk at SIU prior to the April 8 event. The talk will explore the history and discoveries associated with eclipse, transits, occultations, and conjunctions, with special attention to the April 8 total solar eclipse.
This event is the last total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous United States until 2044.
For more information and links go to eclipse.siu.edu.
