The Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative, which we also call the DEB Initiative,
is a network of telescopes all across North America and they're volunteer
operated.
We're using standardized astrophotography software
and what essentially is a standardized astrophotography set up - small telescope,
small camera attached to it, and a laptop collecting the data.
So we'll have 75 observation teams
throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
And we're looking during the total solar eclipse for that evolution of the corona
as we look at the eclipse along the entire path of totality,
and we're also looking outside of the path of totality
at the solar disk to be able to connect the changes
that we see in the solar corona back to the surface of the sun.
So we get images
all along the path of totality and outside the path of totality,
and we can put those images together in a movie.
Each site makes a frame as we see the corona evolve during the total
solar eclipse.
This is outreach in a big way.
We expect to have close to 300 volunteers on these teams doing the observations
and those groups pull in other people that are interested in it as well.
A project like this enables them
to see how they fit into science projects how they can contribute to it.