• 2 min read New Volunteer Data from 143 Observatories Unveils the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse NASA Science Editorial Team On April 8, 2024, volunteers participating inNASA’s Eclipse Megamovie citizen science projectall around the United States hurried to photograph the solar eclipse with the latest, greatest equipment, capturing groundbreaking images of the Sun’s corona. • Now, the Eclipse Megamovie team has released the remarkable new dataset that resulted from this effort - the first-ever, white-light eclipse dataset with calibration frames, spanning more than a cumulative hour and a half of observations of the solar corona. • This data, which includes 52,469 total photographs uploaded by project volunteers, is now live:https://eclipsemegamovie.org/database. • The data include contributions from 143 unique, mobile, volunteer-led “observatories” - people with cameras charged with taking precise images of the eclipse, taking extra steps to allow the painstaking calibration required to reveal how the corona evolves from one person’s view to the next. • Researchers around the world can now use these observations to identify solar jets leaving the Sun’s surface and study how solar plumes grow and develop. • The public can also peruse and download all of this data, which is highly accessible and searchable by observatory name and location.

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  • NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie project has released a comprehensive white‑light dataset from the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. The archive contains 52,469 photographs taken by volunteers at 143 mobile “observatories” across the United States, with 28 sites providing fully calibrated level‑3 images. Available in FITS format at https://eclipsemegamovie.org/database , the data span more than an hour and a half of observations and include raw, intermediate, and calibrated files. Researchers can now study coronal features such as solar jets and plume development, while the public can browse and download the searchable dataset. The release highlights the success of citizen science in advancing solar physics.
  • On April 8, 2024, volunteers participating in NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie citizen science project all around the United States hurried to photograph the solar eclipse with the latest, greatest equipment, capturing groundbreaking images of the Sun’s corona. Now, the Eclipse Megamovie team has released the remarkable new dataset that resulted from this effort - the first-ever, white-light eclipse dataset with calibration frames, spanning more than a cumulative hour and a half of observations of the solar corona. This data, which includes 52,469 total photographs uploaded by project volunteers, is n

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