site.btaUPDATED Bulgarian Astronomers Go to Mexico in April to Observe Total Solar Eclipse

A team of astronomers from the Institute of Astronomy with the National Astronomical Observatory (NAO) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) will leave in April on an expedition to Mexico, where they will observe a total solar eclipse on April 8, Nikola Petrov, director of the Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory, who will also be part of the team, told BTA. Total solar eclipses are important for astronomy because during them it is possible to observe the solar corona in detail from Earth and practically at great distances from the Sun, Petrov said. He specified that the next total solar eclipse, which could be observed from the territory of Bulgaria, will be on September 3, 2081.