[EMP2012] AGU abstract #2

[Michael Thompson]

Hi Hugh

Text looks good, thanks. Could you please include my middle initial: Thompson, MJ ?  And the NCAR authors (of whom there are several) need an acknowledgement as follows, if it can be accommodated:  "The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation." [We can use the abbreviations NCAR and NSF if space is really tight.]

Thanks,   Michael

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Michael J. Thompson
Director, High Altitude Observatory
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
Tel.	303-497-1500
Cell	303-241-7330
FAX	303-497-1568
Email	mjt at ucar.edu
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On Aug 6, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Hugh S. Hudson wrote:

Dear all

I'm counting #1 as Laura's, #2 as this one, and #3 as Scott's.

Here is the current draft, which incorporates comments by several of  
you. Some notes...

0) Are there omissions and/or interlopers in the author list?
1) I've just made the authorship alphabetical, given the length of the  
list
2) Authors should please check if their spelling and initials are  
correct
3) Authors should please send me their affiliations
4) Jay wanted to include an acknowledgment of funding, so I have that  
there.
There seems to be no rule against this. I would also therefore like to  
include
other items, especially the EMP itself; I can just do a generic  
acknowledgment
if no details are available.
5) Content is still malleable
6) We are well within the length limit of 3500 characters, but  
affiliations and
acknowledgements do need to fit into this limit

Thanks

Hugh

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A Coral Sea Rehearsal for the Eclipse Megamovie

Hudson, H.S., Davey, A., Ireland, J., Jones, L., McIntosh, S.W.,
Paglierani, R., Pasachoff, J.M., Peticolas, L., Russell, R., Suarez
Sola, F., Sutherland, L., and Thompson, M.

The "Eclipse on the Coral Sea" - 13 November 2012 - will have
happened already. Our intention is to have used this opportunity
as a trial run for the eclipse in 2017, which features 1.5 hours
of totality across the whole width of the continental US.  Conceived
first and foremost as an education and public outreach activity,
the plan is to assimilate as much eclipse photography as possible,
and to create movie representations of coronal evolution in time.
The movie(s) will cover all ranges of expertise, and at the basic
smartphone or hand-held digital camera level, we expect to have
obtained a huge number of images in the case of good weather
conditions. The capability of modern digital technology to handle
such a data flow is new, and the basic purpose of this and the 2017
Megamove observations is to exploit this capability to facilitate
outreach and public education. The movie in 2017, especially, may
also have important science impact because of the uniqueness of the
corona as seen under eclipse conditions.

In this presentation we will describe our smartphone application
development (see the "Transit of Venus" app for a role model here).
We will also summarize the data acquisition via both it and more
normal Web interfaces.  Although for the Coral Sea event we don't
expect to have a movie product by the time of the AGU, for the 2017
event we do intend to assemble the heterogenous data into a beautiful
movie within a short space of time after the eclipse.  The movie(s)
would have relatively low resolution but would extend to the base
of the corona.  We encourage participation in the 2012 observations,
noting that no total eclipse, prior to 2017, will occur in a region
with good infrastructure for extended observations.

JMP's eclipse work about the eclipses of 2012 is supported by NSF
grant AGS-1047726

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