Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Citizen CATE 2024/Ritesh Patel/Dan SeatonObservations from ground-based and airborne sources use special data and engage the public.Teams led by Southwest Research Institute successfully carried out two groundbreaking experiments– by land and air– collecting unique solar data from the overall eclipse that cast a shadow from Texas to Maine on April 8, 2024. The faint light from the corona is usually subdued by the extreme brightness of the Sun itself, and some wavelengths of light are obstructed by Earths atmosphere.Citizen Science in ActionCATE 2024 released a network of 35 groups of neighborhood participants, or “citizen researchers,” representing regional neighborhoods along the eclipse course, deploying a “pail brigade” of small telescopes following the eclipses cross-country path. The SwRI-led CATE 2024 job, funded by NSF and NASA, includes researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Solar Observatory, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, and the Space Science Institute, with partners at New Mexico State University and the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network, community leaders at Rice University, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of Maine, and over 200 neighborhood participants in 35 neighborhoods along the eclipse path.For more about these projects, please see: https://youtu.be/ca_GzURad1I?si=RgSjNvHBzLK0tHnC orhttps:// eclipse.boulder.swri.edu.
Person scientists in Dallas gathered these information through the SwRI-led Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) 2024 experiment. Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Citizen CATE 2024/Ritesh Patel/Dan SeatonObservations from airborne and ground-based sources provide distinct information and engage the public.Teams led by Southwest Research Institute effectively executed 2 groundbreaking experiments– by land and air– gathering unique solar data from the total eclipse that cast a shadow from Texas to Maine on April 8, 2024. The faint light from the corona is usually subdued by the extreme brightness of the Sun itself, and some wavelengths of light are obstructed by Earths atmosphere.Citizen Science in ActionCATE 2024 deployed a network of 35 teams of community individuals, or “resident researchers,” representing local neighborhoods along the eclipse course, releasing a “container brigade” of small telescopes following the eclipses cross-country course. Caspis team released a brand-new suite of sensitive, high-speed, infrared and visible-light imagers, built by the SCIFLI team at NASAs Langley Research Center, installed in the nose cone of a WB-57 jet.Across the country, 35 teams consisting of more than 200 volunteers collected eclipse data using telescopes offered through the SwRI-led Citizen CATE 2024 experiment. The SwRI-led CATE 2024 job, moneyed by NSF and NASA, consists of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Solar Observatory, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, and the Space Science Institute, with partners at New Mexico State University and the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network, neighborhood leaders at Rice University, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of Maine, and over 200 community participants in 35 communities along the eclipse path.For more about these projects, please see: https://youtu.be/ca_GzURad1I?si=RgSjNvHBzLK0tHnC orhttps:// eclipse.boulder.swri.edu.
