[EMP2012] poster

[Hugh Hudson]

Dear Paul

Here it is, in ASCII with some bits of TeX formatting. The Web page no longer seems to provide instructions for abstracts, maybe because this is way, way too late! Thanks for the accommodation, I think this is a very worthy cause and a good opportunity.

Cheers

Hugh

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\noindent{\bf A Movie of the Coral Sea Eclipse: Practicing for 2017}

\noindent{\bf The Eclipse Megamovie Team}

A total eclipse in 2017 will traverse the full breadth of the United States, from Oregon to South Carolina, and this period of totality will last for an hour and a half. We are starting to organize an effort to acquire and reprocess many still images of the corona into a ``Megamovie,'' or rather a series of Megamovies depending upon the quality of the input data. This effort aims mainly at public outreach, and we intend to sponsor activities to enlist schools in the eclipse path among other amateur participants. The movies may also have scientific content, since many kinds of coronal variability do occur within this time scale. Whereas true variability is sometimes difficult to detect on these time scales (though some success have occurred, e.g., the recent multi-site results from Habbal et al. (ApJ 734, 120, 2011) and Pasachoff et al. (ApJ 734, 114, 2011 and 742, 29, 2011), a lucky sighting of a CME or other transient could occur at any time. We note the 1860 eclipse described by Eddy (A\&A 34, 235, 1974) as possibly the first sighting of a CME. Since the eclipse corona extends to the very surface of the Sun, such a sighting would have clear scientific value and should be documented well if at all possible.

For the Coral Sea eclipse, to be observed from the coast of Queensland, Australia, on 13/14 November 2012, our team will attempt to carry out a first rehearsal of our plans for 2017. This effort will include multiple outreach activities, instruction on eclipse observation for inexperienced observers, the establishment of Internet-based tools for data transfer, the acquisition of as many eclipse images as possible (with their metadata), and finally the processing of these images into movie format. Among the Web-based tools we are working to provide an app for smartphones, with the idea that at almost any amateur snapshot can contribute at least to a record of Baily's Beads. This app will instruct and guide observers, and help to record the metadata for their images.

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On Sep 27, 2012, at 11:38 PM, Paul Cally wrote:

> Great. Thanks Hugh.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 28/09/12 1:59 AM, Hugh Hudson wrote:
>> Dear Paul
>> 
>> I've getting some feedback from our group and will have a poster title and abstract for you first thing Monday morning. Hope that's not too late. It would be a normal-size poster that we would print from a .pdf rather than carry over.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Hugh
>> 
>> On Sep 21, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Paul Cally wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for the heads-up Hugh. Yes, that would be great. We are very tight on poster space, but will see what we can do. I hope a normal poster-sized space will suffice. Would you like to provide a stub title and abstract for the poster that can go in the abstract book and thereby alert people to its presence at the meeting? If so, please send direct to me.
>>> 
>>> Looking forward to seeing megamovie in action!
>>> 
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>> On 21/09/12 11:32 PM, Hugh Hudson wrote:
>>>> Dear Paul
>>>> 
>>>> We are organizing a program to help coordinate observations of the eclipse itself, leading up to our grandiose "megamovie" scheme for the US eclipse in 2017. It would be very helpful if we could have poster space from the outset, so that we can communicate important facts to those people who plan to do photography.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for this late notice. I did not do a science abstract, probably thinking that this would be it, but plan to enjoy all aspects of the science discussions of course, especially of course those associated with waves.
>>>> 
>>>> Scott may also have alerted you to our need for an informative eclipse poster. Hope you've got room!
>>>> 
>>>> Hugh
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Paul Cally
>>> Professor of Solar Physics
>>> Monash Centre for Astrophysics
>>> School of Mathematical Sciences
>>> Monash University
>>> Clayton
>>> Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3800
>>> Ph:  +61 3 9905-4471
>>> FAX: +61 3 9905-4403
>>> moca.monash.edu.au
>>> 
>>> Come to "Eclipse on the Coral Sea: Cycle 24 Ascending"
>>> Nov 12-16 2012, Palm Cove, Australia
>>> http://moca.monash.edu.au/eclipse
>>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Cally
> Professor of Solar Physics
> Monash Centre for Astrophysics
> School of Mathematical Sciences
> Monash University
> Clayton
> Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3800
> Ph:  +61 3 9905-4471
> FAX: +61 3 9905-4403
> moca.monash.edu.au
> 
> Come to "Eclipse on the Coral Sea: Cycle 24 Ascending"
> Nov 12-16 2012, Palm Cove, Australia
> http://moca.monash.edu.au/eclipse
>