Eclipse Megamovie

  • Released Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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Eclipse Megamovie is a NASA-funded citizen science project that engages photographers across the United States to capture images of the Sun’s outermost atmosphere – the corona – during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Volunteers will use DSLR cameras on mounts that will track the Sun’s position in the sky to record changes in the Sun’s corona during the eclipse.


Eclipse Megamovie is one of many participatory science projects happening during the 2024 total solar eclipse.


Read more: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/eclipse-photographers-help-study-sun-during-disappearing-act/

Watch this video on the NASA Video YouTube channel.

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Music credit: "Towards the Future" by Evan William Conway [ASCAP] from Universal Production Music

The Eclipse Megamovie captured by volunteer scientists across the U.S. during the total solar eclipse on August, 21, 2017.

Video credit: Eclipse Megamovie

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Volunteer scientists Amy Van Artsdalen (who appears first) in Hillsboro, TX., and Chris Mlodnicki (who appears second) and his son, Sebastian Mlodnicki (who appears third), in Burleson, TX., make preparations for their involvement in the Eclipse Megamovie project ahead of the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

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This page was originally published on Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
This page was last updated on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 1:33 PM EDT.

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