Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.7106h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #71.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.862
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The 2006 Total Solar Eclipse: Astronomy, Africa, Science, Culture, and Representation
Over the last decade three total solar eclipses have occurred in Africa in 2001, 2002, and 2006. San Francisco's Exploratorium has created the standard format for international total solar eclipse coverage focusing on the physics of eclipses. However, an international group of scientists decided to reframe the 2006 eclipse into an opportunity to showcase the astronomy taking place in Africa alongside the cultural astronomy of Africans. The result was an award winning broadcast done by Morehouse College in conjunction with CNN. Filmed in Cape Coast, Ghana, the broadcast shows the University of Cape Coast campus alive with people and includes interviews with researchers and students. Unlike other eclipse coverage, the crowd and the location were central to the content of the broadcast. Two of the three hosts were African American scientists thus this demographic is also represented. New for cultural astronomy research, interviews are included with local fishermen about their sky knowledge. Thus, there are multiple levels of African representation: African astronomers, African cultural astronomers, and Africans with living sky knowledge. This presentation includes clips from previous eclipse coverage in Africa and the 2006 broadcast.
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