People who expect to see the full effects of a total solar eclipse in Statesboro on Aug. 21 will be disappointed, but the eclipse tracing a rare transcontinental path remains fascinating even to astronomers, says Professor Clayton Heller, Ph.D., director of the Georgia Southern University Planetarium. Heller also chairs the university’s physics department. In research, he specializes in the structure and evolution of galaxies, so the interplay of the sun, moon and earth in an eclipse might seem relatively mundane.