The tasks of the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group on Solar Eclipses include:
a) Working with the general public, providing materials and links to explain why eclipses are interesting to watch, how to observe them safely, and what science is being studied; and
b) Working with professional astronomers from around the world, to help coordinate their expeditions to total solar eclipses, including helping them work with customs in various countries about the temporary importation of scientific equipment.
The present status and future
The Working Group on Solar Eclipses coordinates scientists and information in the study of the Sun and the heliosphere at solar eclipses. As more and more scientific requirements come out, more and more techniques are created, and new scientific observational methods are applied, the science under the extremely clean circumstance during the eclipses will be promoted and the research continues.
Information
Our Website at http://eclipses.info established by the former chair Prof. Pasachoff’s team and other members has a wide variety of information, including links to maps and other websites dealing with solar eclipses, as well as information on how to observe the partial-phases of solar eclipses safely and why it is interesting for not only scientists but also for the public to observe eclipses, and to see how we work to uncover the mysteries of the sun's upper atmosphere.
The web page of the IAU Working Group on Solar Eclipses contains a wide variety of material and links relevant to observing solar eclipses. It is suitable for the general public as well as advanced amateur astronomers and professional astronomers. Maps of the paths of totality and annularity, cloudiness statistics based on past spacecraft observations, information on the safety of eclipse observations, and many other pieces of information are linked. The website should be viewed as a "one-stop shop" for eclipse information.
The last version will be used with link to: https://sites.williams.edu/iau-eclipses/
Members, Updated (07/2025)
Zhongquan Qu, Chair
Yunnan Observatories
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kunming 650216, Yunnan, China
zqqu@ynao.ac.cn
+86 +871-63920609
China
Jay M. Pasachoff, former Chair, in Memoriam of
Williams College – Hopkins Observatory
Williamstown, MA 01267
eclipse@williams.edu
http://totalsolareclipse.org
United States
Vojtech Rusin
Slovak Academy of Sciences
http://www.sav.sk/
Slovakia
Shadia Rifai Habbal
University of Hawaii Honolulu
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/
United States
Beatriz Garcia
Pierre Auger Lab
Argentina
Hiroki KUROKAWA
Kyoto University
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-e.html
Japan
William A. Kramer
United States
Kevin Reardon
National Solar Observatory
http://www.nso.edu/
Italy
Cyrille Bazin
CNRS
France
Michael J. Gill
United Kingdom
Jagdev Singh
Indian Inst of Astrophysics
http://www.iiap.res.in
India
Michael Nikolaus Zeiler
Esri
http://www.esri.com
United States
Fred Espenak
eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html
United States
Patricio Michel Rojo
Universidad De Chile
http://www.das.uchile.cl
Chile
Xavier Marie Jubier
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/
France
Costantino Sigismondi
International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics
http://www.icra.it/solar
Italy
Michael Scott Wheatland
The University of Sydney
https://sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/michael-wheatland.html
Australia
Mark Kidger
European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
Zhou Ruoyu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
China
Hong Su
Yunnan Amateur Astronomers Association
https://www.weibo.com/aaay2011
China
Hisashi Hayakawa
Nagoya University
Boyang Liu
EAST Telescope Preparatory Committee
China
Aristeidis Voulgaris
Independent Researcher / (Laboratory of Optics and Spectroscopy of the Department of Physics of the AUTH, GR, External Partner Since 2004 - ))
Xiangming Cheng
Yunnan Observatories
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kunming 650216, Yunnan, China
China
Yu Liang
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Chinese Academy of Sciences
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5636-9013
China
Bob Baer
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
https://physics.siu.edu/people/baer.php
