Eclipse chasing

[4][5] As of 2017, three New Yorkers, Glenn Schneider, Jay Pasachoff, and John Beattie have each seen 33 total solar eclipses, the current record.

[6] Donald Liebenberg, professor of astronomy at Clemson University in South Carolina has seen 26 traveling to Turkey, Zambia, China, the Cook Islands and others.

[12] The next attempt was successful: an expedition of the Naval Observatory to observe the solar eclipse of April 28, 1930 on Honey Lake, California, with Vought 02U-1 plane equipped with a camera, recorded "the approach of the shadow".

Accompanied by Lieutenant Charles D. McAllister of the Army Air Corps, Stevens took the first photograph of the Moon's shadow projected onto the Earth during a solar eclipse.

[9] For the solar eclipse of May 9, 1948, National Geographic society organized several ground stations and two backup planes for a case of bad weather.

[16] In 2024, it was estimated by US tourism officials that at least 4 to 5 million people traveled from various parts of the country to witness the eclipse along the path of totality.