WEBVTT FILE

1
00:00:01.340 --> 00:00:06.210
On eclipse day, Citizen CATE will deploy 35 teams

2
00:00:06.210 --> 00:00:10.160
of community participants with telescopes, cameras, mounts,

3
00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:14.900
all that you need to observe the eclipse, all the way from Texas to Maine

4
00:00:14.900 --> 00:00:19.130
so that we can make observations of the eclipse, of totality,

5
00:00:19.130 --> 00:00:24.590
in polarized visible light and get about an hour-long movie of totality.

6
00:00:24.590 --> 00:00:27.990
When you look at a total solar eclipse, you look at that bright corona.

7
00:00:27.990 --> 00:00:31.690
You’re not actually seeing light that’s coming from the corona itself.

8
00:00:31.690 --> 00:00:34.270
You’re looking at light that came from the surface of the Sun

9
00:00:34.270 --> 00:00:39.780
that went out and then it bounced around and moved through the corona to our eyes.

10
00:00:39.780 --> 00:00:43.920
When we’re looking with our cameras in CATE 2024,

11
00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:49.580
what we’re looking at is exactly how that light was bouncing around in the corona before it came to us

12
00:00:49.580 --> 00:00:53.410
and the way that it was doing that tells us about what’s happening in the corona.

13
00:00:53.410 --> 00:01:00.630
There are a lot of scientific experiments that have questions so big that you can’t do it just with scientists.

14
00:01:00.630 --> 00:01:03.530
You need to engage a huge team of people.

15
00:01:03.530 --> 00:01:05.960
And the best way to that is to engage with the public.

16
00:01:05.960 --> 00:01:11.680
For CATE 2024, we need to have 35 teams of people all along the eclipse path.

17
00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:16.720
We just can’t do that with professionals. We need to engage with community participants.

18
00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:20.860
That’s the only way we can get the breadth of data that we need for this experiment.

19
00:01:20.860 --> 00:01:27.330
Anybody can join CATE 2024. People without a scientific background. People who have never used a telescope.

20
00:01:27.330 --> 00:01:34.650
In fact, those are exactly the kinds of people we want on the team because we want to train the next generation of scientists.

21
00:01:34.650 --> 00:01:40.750
We want to instill that love of science in people that may otherwise not have an experience like this.

22
00:01:40.750 --> 00:01:52.875