The Eclipse Megamovie Project (2017). (arXiv:2207.13704v1 [astro-ph.IM])
<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Hudson_H/0/1/0/all/0/1">Hugh S. Hudson</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Peticolas_L/0/1/0/all/0/1">Laura Peticolas</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Johnson_C/0/1/0/all/0/1">Calvin Johnson</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+White_V/0/1/0/all/0/1">Vivian White</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bender_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">Mark Bender</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Pasachoff_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">Jay M. Pasachoff</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Oliveros_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Collier_B/0/1/0/all/0/1">Braxton Collier</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Fillpenko_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">Alex Fillpenko</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Fillipenko_N/0/1/0/all/0/1">Noelle Fillipenko</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Fraknoi_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">Andrew Fraknoi</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Gomez_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">Juan Camilo Guevara Gómez</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Koh_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">Justin Koh</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Konerding_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">David Konerding</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Kruse_B/0/1/0/all/0/1">Brian Kruse</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+McIntosh_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">Scott McIntosh</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Mendez_B/0/1/0/all/0/1">Brian Mendez</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Ruderman_I/0/1/0/all/0/1">Igor Ruderman</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Zevin_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">Dan Zevin</a> (and many hundreds of volunteers)
The total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, crossed the whole width of North
America, the first occasion for this during the modern age of consumer
electronics. Accordingly, it became a great opportunity to engage the public
and to enlist volunteer observers with relatively high-level equipment; our
program (“Eclipse Megamovie”) took advantage of this as a means of creating a
first-ever public database of such eclipse photography. This resulted in a
large outreach program, involving many hundreds of individuals, supported
almost entirely on a volunteer basis and with the institutional help of Google,
the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the University of California,
Berkeley. The project home page is url{this http URL}, which
contains the movie itself. We hope that our comments here will help with
planning for similar activities in the total eclipse of April 8, 2024.
The total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, crossed the whole width of North
America, the first occasion for this during the modern age of consumer
electronics. Accordingly, it became a great opportunity to engage the public
and to enlist volunteer observers with relatively high-level equipment; our
program (“Eclipse Megamovie”) took advantage of this as a means of creating a
first-ever public database of such eclipse photography. This resulted in a
large outreach program, involving many hundreds of individuals, supported
almost entirely on a volunteer basis and with the institutional help of Google,
the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the University of California,
Berkeley. The project home page is url{this http URL}, which
contains the movie itself. We hope that our comments here will help with
planning for similar activities in the total eclipse of April 8, 2024.
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