3 papers
astro-ph.SR2025
Citizen CATE 2024: Extending Totality During the 8 April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse with a Distributed Network of Community Participants
Sarah A. Kovac, Amir Caspi, Daniel B. Seaton +240
The Citizen CATE 2024 next-generation experiment placed 43 identical telescope and camera setups along the path of totality during the total solar eclipse (TSE) on 8 April 2024 to…
physics.ed-ph2025
Teaching Using Immersion -- Explaining Magnetism and Eclipses in a Planetarium Dome
Patricia H Reiff, Carolyn Sumners
Previously we have shown that three-dimensional concepts are more readily learned in a three-dimensional context. Although VR headsets are growing in popularity, they only provide…
physics.space-ph2025
Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
Patricia H. Reiff, Carolyn T. Sumners, Charles H. Gardner +2
The Heliophysics Big Year was an extended year where major solar events engaged the public. It included two eclipses (annular on October 14, 2023 and total on April 8, 2024), plus…