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Eclipse City proudly presents its new products:
          
Adventure Astronomy: Archaeoastronomy and Modern Astronomy Travel
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The focus of Eclipse-City’s Astronomy Tours is to learn more about Astronomy in cultures: yesterday's, today's and tomorrow's astronomy.
Eclipse-City, market leader in eclipse events and trusted partner of hundreds of eclipse chasers all over the world as well as the NASA, EurAstro, ESO and different Universities is amplifying its portfolio. The new products are described as “Astronomy Tours” and Eclipse City invites you to take part and get expert knowledge about the important archaeoastronomical sites of the Mayas, Aztecs and Incas as well as the modern astronomical technologies of today in Chile. All tours will be guided by absolute experts and will bring you the usual
Eclipse-City comforts in the right mix with some adventure….
With our newly-designed tours, we are the first to bring astronomers and astronomy-enthusiastic people on specialized tours of that kind. Aiming for nothing but the best, we guarantee you to stick to our Eclipse-City’s high standards:
- EXPERTISE: All tours are accompanied by absolute experts in their fields to pass you on all insider information as well as new scientifically findings. Find out more about Eclipse City's Faculty of Experts members, Clive Ruggles and Maxime Boccas, below.
- COMFORT: We are, throughout our tours, providing you with the best quality services available. Therefore we work with trusted local suppliers we have tested ourselves.
- SAFETY: All tours have been planned under the focus of guaranteeing you the highest safety standards possible.
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has endorsed a study on the Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy, prepared within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. It identifies some of the most outstanding examples that are of significance to everyone.
Read the Thematic Study and find that Eclipse-City brings you to most of the places mentioned. You can download the ICOMOS-IAU Thematic Study free from the IYA2009 website: Please follow this link
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Astronomy Yesterday and Today
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The Astronomy of the Mayas and Aztecs -
an archaeoastronomical voyage through México and Guatemala
"This is the first account, the first narrative. There was neither man, nor animal, birds, fishes, crabs, trees, stones, caves, ravines, grasses, nor forests; there was only the sky. The surface of the earth had not appeared. here was only the calm sea and the great expanse of the sky...
Come and “see” the equinox at Chichen Itza’s sun pyramid! (For more information click here)
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Astronomical tradition in the Andes -
an archaeoastronomical voyage through Peru and Bolivia
In the “Tawantinsuyu”, The Four United Provinces of the Inca Empire, the sky with its stars were of all-embracing relevancy. In a religious meaning the stars were gods, amongst which Inti, the god of the sun, was centre of the Inca’s heliolatry...
Come and “see” the solstice at Chankillo observatory with a possible extention to today's Astronomy in Chile! (For more information click here)
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Eclipse-City Faculty of Experts
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Professor Clive Ruggles:
Clive is one of the world’s best-known archaeoastronomers. He has worked in many parts of the world and published several books, together with well over 100 papers and articles, on subjects varying from prehistoric Europe and pre-Columbian America to indigenous astronomies in Africa and other parts of the world.
Having transformed from an astrophysicist into an archaeologist, Clive was appointed in 1999 as Professor of Archaeoastronomy at the University of Leicester in the UK, apparently the first such post in the world. He has ongoing fieldwork projects in Peru and Polynesia and is a leading figure in the joint initiative by UNESCO and the International Astronomical Union working to promote, preserve and protect the world’s most important astronomical heritage sites.
Be invited to visit Clive's website: www.cliveruggles.net
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Maxime Boccas:
Maxime is optical systems group manager at the Gemini Observatory in La Serena, Chile since 2001. He is an amateur telescope maker (-his highlight has been the optics of a 16'' Newtonian-) and has always been interested in archaeoastronomical investigations.
In the year 2000 the Chilean Ministry of Science granted Maxime for his itinerant exhibit about archaeastronomy touring schools. Three years later he became the local organizer of Symposium ARQ-13 (-ARQ stands for Archaeoastronomy-) at the 51st International Congress of Americanists in Santiago.
He is author of 10 and co-author of 10 publications in the fields of astronomy, engineering and archaeoastronomy.
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