White-Light Solar Corona data from August 8th, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse is now available on the Eclipse Megamovie Webpage!

[Hannah Hellman]

To the best eclipse community there is,

We are proud to unveil the first-ever, white-light eclipse dataset that includes calibration frames from over 30 unique cameras spanning more than a cumulative hour and a half of observations of the solar corona. Click here to learn more. 

Beginning in the Summer of 2024, the SSU Eclipse Megamovie team from Sonoma State University and the University of California, Berkeley, and our collaborators at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center finalized a plan to get the data we collected out to both the public (level 1 data as taken) and to scientists (level 2 uncalibrated data as FITS files and level 3 data as calibrated HDR FITS files). Work quickly began by EdEon STEM Learning programmer Troy Wilson on a website for anyone and everyone to access this dataset. Data came from 143 unique observatories with 52,469 total photographs uploaded by many of you. 

We define an observatory as a unique camera setup, producing a set of white-light photographs of the solar corona. For most observatories, these included the total solar eclipse images of the solar corona and the calibration frames. From these 143 unique observatories, 28 observatories had clear skies, sufficient calibration frames, and enough unique exposure times to create level 3 HDR images in the FITS format. This is a major accomplishment. 

We want to thank our volunteers for their persistence, passion, generosity, expertise, and curiosity. We have learned so much from you all, and are grateful for your support for our science efforts. As we get closer to this project’s finish line, we look forward to sharing the many good things to come with all of you. 

Click here to access the Eclipse Megamovie Database

If your data is in this database and you see something related to it that needs to be changed, please let us know right away by emailing: ede...@sonoma.edu. 

Wishing you all a warm and safe holiday! 

Hannah :) 

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Hannah Hellman, M.A. English Literature

Communications Specialist

EdEon STEM Learning

Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928

[Hannah Hellman]

Thanks to Kazuaki Kashihara for gently and kindly pointing out that I forgot to include a link in the "click here to learn more part of the email. Please feel free to follow the link at the bottom to get to the EM2024 database. 

Thanks, Kaz!! We have the best volunteers.