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On eclipse day, Citizen CATE will deploy 35 teams

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of community participants with telescopes, cameras, mounts,

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all that you need to observe the eclipse, all the way from Texas to Maine 

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so that we can make observations of the eclipse, of totality,

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in polarized visible light and get about an hour-long movie of totality. 

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When you look at a total solar eclipse, you look at that bright corona.

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You’re not actually seeing light that’s coming from the corona itself. 

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You’re looking at light that came from the surface of the Sun 

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that went out and then it bounced around and moved through the corona to our eyes.

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When we’re looking with our cameras in CATE 2024,

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what we’re looking at is exactly how that light was bouncing around in the corona before it came to us 

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and the way that it was doing that tells us about what’s happening in the corona. 

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There are a lot of scientific experiments that have questions so big that you can’t do it just with scientists. 

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You need to engage a huge team of people. 

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And the best way to that is to engage with the public. 

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For CATE 2024, we need to have 35 teams of people all along the eclipse path.

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We just can’t do that with professionals. We need to engage with community participants. 

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That’s the only way we can get the breadth of data that we need for this experiment. 

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Anybody can join CATE 2024. People without a scientific background. People who have never used a telescope.

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In fact, those are exactly the kinds of people we want on the team because we want to train the next generation of scientists.

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We want to instill that love of science in people that may otherwise not have an experience like this. 

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