Hugh S. Hudson, Scott W. McIntosh, Shadia R. Habbal, Jay M. Pasachoff, Laura Peticolas
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.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3486
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