The Citizen CATE Experiment

CATE 2017 Movies: 1% of data roughly co-aligned

Updated 20170909: prominence from several sites

Updated 20170911: a few shuffled, noise-added, watermarked frames showing global view

CATE 21 Aug 2017 Data:

62 sites with data

5 sites with clouds

1 site unknown

Oregon 10/10 sites observing

Idaho 8/8 sites observing

Wyoming 8/11 sites observing

Nebraska 9/9 sites observing

Kansas 1/2 sites observing

Missouri 5/6 sites observing

Illinois 3/4 sites observing

Kentucky 5/5 sites observing

Tennessee 5/5 sites observing

North Carolina 1/1 site observing

South Carolina 7/7 sites observing

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The Citizen CATE Experiment will use a fleet of telescopes to observe the total solar eclipse of 21 Aug 2017. As the shadow of the moon travels across the continental USA, citizen astronomers from more than 68 sites will take images of the brightness of the inner solar corona. While the totality phase of the eclipse will last only 2 minutes at each site, the combined Citizen CATE Experiment data set will reveal for the first time how this part of the solar atmosphere changes during 90 minutes. New scientific results about the dynamics of the magnetic fields and plasmas in this part of the solar corona will be derived from the data, and the image sequence will provide a beautiful perspective of the solar eclipse as never seen before.