[EMP2012] 3rd abstract? Complete 2nd abstract with author list?

[Scott W. McIntosh]

Hi Jay,

I will certainly do that. I am working to see if we can get an NSF project number to add.

Please consider the author list on my abstract to be that of Hugh's - alphabetical after me :-)

Cheers,
	Scott

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On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Jay Pasachoff wrote:

> I see Hugh's: A Coral Sea Rehearsal for the Eclipse Megamovie
> [reproduced below]
> 
> I see Scott's: McIntosh, S., et al., 2012, "Eclipse Megamovie Project: From Oz to Oregon –Looking Forward to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse," 
> (though I have not seen the author list)
> [reproduced below, sans author list]
> 
> I include both abstracts below, for convenience.
> 
> And maybe Scott can include the same credits from Hugh's abstract at the end of his abstract.
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> I don't see a copy of Russell's (Randy Russell's?)
> Can someone please send it around to the mailing list?
>  (Randy Russell wrote on July 31: I think Laura's notion of two AGU talks or posters, one on science and one on education, makes sense.)
> 
> Jay
> 
> 
> Jay M. Pasachoff
> Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy
> Director, Hopkins Observatory
> Williams College
> 33 Lab Campus Drive
> Williamstown, MA 01267-2565
> 413 597 2105; fax: 413 597 3200
> jay.m.pasachoff at williams.edu
> 
> sabbatical through February 1, 2013
> Caltech 150-21
> Pasadena, CA 91125
> jmp at caltech.edu
> cell: 617 285 6351
> 
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> (1)
> 
> A Coral Sea Rehearsal for the Eclipse Megamovie
> 
> Hudson, H.S., SSL, UC Berkeley and U Glasgow
> Davey, A., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
> Ireland, J., NASA/ADNET SYSTEMS
> Jones, L., NCAR
> McIntosh, S.W., NCAR
> Paglierani, R., SSL, UC Berkeley
> Pasachoff, J.M., Williams College and Caltech
> Peticolas, L., SSL, UC Berkeley
> Russell, R., UCAR
> Suarez Sola, F., NSO
> Sutherland, L., NCAR
> Thompson, M.J., NCAR
> 
> The "Eclipse on the Coral Sea" - 13/14 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
> Megamovie 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 down 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 work about the eclipses of 2012 is supported by NSF
> grant AGS-1047726. The Megamovie project and the National Center for 
> Atmospheric Research are sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
> 
> ______
> 
> (2)
> 
> Scott McIntosh, et al.
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> On the morning of November 13/14th, 2012, a total solar eclipse traverses
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> Queensland Australia. The Eclipse Megamovie Project (EMP) has the goal to
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> "stitch" a large number of images, obtained by a group of (largely
> 
> untrained) observers (amateur and professional) staged along the eclipse's
> 
> path of totality into a continuous record of solar evolution over that
> 
> time - an "Eclipse Megamovie."  With this presentation we will look
> 
> forward to the August 2017 total solar eclipse which crosses the entire
> 
> continental United States in ninety minutes. We envision that the 2017
> 
> incarnation of the EMP will be a citizen science project with massive
> 
> participation pulling a very broad demographic. A vital component of how
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> we will move forward for 2017 is learning how to clear the logistical,
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> technical, and scientific hurdles that we encounter in Australia. We will
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> present preliminary participant demographics, statistics, initial results,
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> and the lessons learned from this first of only a limited nu
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> mber of test events for EMP 2017.
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