Record #:

36968

Author(s):

Lucas, Adam

Abstract:

Profile was that year’s solar eclipse, a total solar eclipse in history touted as viewable in towns such as Franklin, Sylva, and Highlands. Included in the profile were other contributions that western North Carolina has made to the field of astronomy. In the early 1960s, NASA established a satellite tracking station in Transylvania County, now called the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. That institute became a site of research for this eclipse.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 85 Issue 3, August 2017, p135-136

Subject(s):

Eclipses; Astronomy; Transylvania County; Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI); Old Salem; Zoos; Sylva--Description and travel; Highlands--Description and travel; Franklin--Description and travel; Morehead Planetarium (Chapel Hill)