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.
@article{arxiv.1108.3486,
title = {The U.S. Eclipse Megamovie in 2017: a white paper on a unique outreach event},
author = {Hugh S. Hudson and Scott W. McIntosh and Shadia R. Habbal and Jay M. Pasachoff and Laura Peticolas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3486},
year = {2012}
}
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Companion white paper to arXiv:1108.2323 (Habbal et al.)