Fred Espenak

Fred Espenak is a retired NASA astrophysicist and was the agency's expert on eclipses. Known as "Mr. Eclipse", he is the author of numerous books including Totality - Eclipses of the Sun, and the Thousand Year Canon of Solar Eclipses: 1501 to 2500.Espenak's www.MrEclipse.com website focuses on eclipse photography while the new www.EclipseWise.com website contains over 5,000 years of eclipse predictions. An avid eclipse chaser, he has participated in dozens of eclipse expeditions around the world to remote locations such as the Sahara, the Bolivian altiplano, Mongolia, and Antarctica. Now living in rural Arizona, he spends most clear nights losing sleep and photographing the stars from Bifrost Observatory (www.AstroPixels.com).