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Total Solar Eclipses From Indonesia to South Carolina
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SCSU Team
• March 9, 2016 (Indonesia)
– Myles McKay (undergraduate physics major)
– Donald Walter
• August 21, 2017 (South Carolina)
– Jennifer Cash
– Daniel Smith
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Lunar Eclipse
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Eclipses Do Not Occur Each Month Because of the tilt of the moon’s orbit
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The Citizen Continental America Telescope Eclipse (CATE) Experiment
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CATE
• 60 to 100 identical telescopes across the path of totality during the eclipse of August 21, 2017
• Sites distributed from the Oregon coast to South Carolina
• Acquiring images of the solar corona
• 90 minutes continuous coverage of the dynamics of the solar corona during totality
• Sites operated by a collection of scientists, students and citizen scientists.
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CATE Sites
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NASA Funding
Lead is National Solar Observatory
• Four Universities SC State University of Wyoming Southern Illinois University Western Kentucky University
• Other Organizations Naval Research Lab, ....
• Citizen Scientists • Corporate Sponsors
• Coordinators for each state • SC State coordinate South Carolina participants
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CATE Science (more than pretty pictures)
• Some coronal features only visible during totality
• Single site gets only a few minutes
• Combined sites will get up to 90 continuous minutes
• Will look for changes in density, outflow, inflow throughout the corona
• Calibrated digital imagery will allow for accurate measurements of size, speed, brightness, etc.
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Changing Polar Plume Features
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Evolution of Pockets of Different Density
Evolution of RT instabilities in
prominences and coronal structure
(label “5”) believed to be the same
instability moving from the cool
prominence into the hot corona.
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Pre-trip Testing
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Indonesia March 2016
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Site Set-up Ternate
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7 exposure sequence
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SCSU Team at Ternate
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SIU Best Single Frame
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SCSU left, SIU Right
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Summed SIU
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Ternate
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EPO at Ternate
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Ternate - City
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Ternate - City
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Island Tour
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Island Tour
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Island Tour
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Island Tour
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August 21, 2017
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August 21, 2017
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August 21, 2017
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August 21, 2017