Chap Percival

Author Chap Percival has been an astronomy educator since 1969 as a classroom teacher, club sponsor, and planetarium director. He has a masters degree in Planetarium Education. In 2001 he helped write the astronomy standards for the Florida Department of Education. He has taught teachers how to use a portable Starlab planetarium, to expand its use to thousands of students.

Percival has written newspaper articles, given radio interviews, and volunteered as a sky interpreter for the National Park Service. He has a passion for showing people sights in the sky that they have never seen before, opening the universe to them.

He has traveled to see five total solar eclipses and wants as many people as possible to see the eclipse of August 21, 2017, especially school age children. Go See the Eclipse and Take a Kid With You is his first book. The book's companion website is http://goseetheeclipse.com.