The U.S. Eclipse Megamovie in 2017: a white paper on a unique outreach event
arXiv:1108.3486
Abstract
Totality during the solar eclipse of 2017 traverses the entire breadth of the continental United States, from Oregon to South Carolina. It thus provides the opportunity to assemble a very large number of images, obtained by amateur observers all along the path, into a continuous record of coronal evolution in time; totality lasts for an hour and a half over the continental U.S. While we describe this event here as an opportunity for public education and outreach, such a movie -with very high time resolution and extending to the chromosphere - will also contain unprecedented information about the physics of the solar corona.
arXiv commentCompanion white paper to arXiv:1108.2323 (Habbal et al.)