By Sonoma State University and University of California, Berkeley • 2024-09-20
EM2024’s page on SciStarter, a participatory science platform that seeks to encourage people to learn about and participate in real science through informal activities and formal research efforts.
By Janet Durkin • 2024-03-14
An article by SSU’s own Janet Durkin. The article discusses the goals of EM2024 and houses several other News links for anyone curious about the project.
By Sonoma State University • 2024-04
Sonoma State University announces the funding of the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 project.
By Karin Hauck • 2024-03-25
University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory created a page for the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 project, encouraging anyone with a DSLR or better camera to participate.
By Jamie Carter • 2024-04-14
Space.com, a website that publishes stories and accumulates resources about space and related topics, published an article about Eclipse Megamovie 2024. Space.com was launched in New York City on July 20, 1999, the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. This article does a great job talking about what remains to be discovered about the Sun’s behavior and how EM2024 will contribute to that endeavor.
By Sonoma State University • 2024–04
Sonoma State University’s Strategic Communications magazine, Insights, published an Article about the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse and included information about the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 project.
By Degree of Science • 2023-12-05
Eclipse Megamovie’s Dr. Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros joined Brady Taylor on KWTX’s Degrees of Science program. They chat about cameras, eclipses, calibration frames, eclipse safety, and why 2024 is an incredible opportunity to study the sun.
By Hannah Hellman and Laura Peticolas • 2024-02-01
Published as a research note on the Bulletin of the AAS (BAAS), a publication for reports of broad interest to the astronomical community, this article discusses the EM2024 Discord server, its creation, and how it enables volunteers to communicate and build relationships in ways unique from other platforms.
By Sarah Scoles • 2024-02-01
This Scientific American article informs readers how they can participate in science projects of all kinds during the 2024 total solar eclipse, including the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 project!
By Dan Vaccaro • 2024-03-26
Written by Dan Vaccaro from the UC Berkeley Library, this article features 3 things learned from Henrike C. Lange’s event for her book on cultural, emotional, and scientific interpretations and depictions of solar eclipses. The article references Dr. Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros’ Eclipse Megamovie talk, and Hannah Hellman’s interdisciplinary talk about Virginia Woolf’s 1927 eclipse experience.
By Fox Weather • 2024-04
Featuring audio and video from an interview with Laura Peticolas, FOX Weather uses stunning visuals of the Sun and its behavior to encourage people to view the April 2024 eclipse.
By Jonathan Amos • 2024-04-24
Written by BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos, this article discusses everything there is to be discussed about solar eclipses. Eclipse Megamovie is mentioned briefly, along with several other NASA-funded citizen science projects.
By Hannah Hellman • 2025-04-25
NASA’s Swift and Fermi missions continue to uncover the Universe’s most powerful events, including recent discoveries of black holes disrupting gas clouds and launching plasma jets
By Hannah Hellman • 2025-04-08
To celebrate the EM2024 project and the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse, Principal Investigator Dr. Laura Peticolas ordered the creation of a commemorative project patch. This patch has been mailed to many of our volunteers in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the total solar eclipse. Here’s a bit of information about the history of NASA Mission Patches, and our own EM2017 and 2024 patches!
One year ago, many of us set out to attend a seemingly otherworldly phenomenon. We traveled far and wide and even made last minute adjustments to plans that had been set years prior. Eclipse Megamovie is a special project for many reasons, and you are a huge part of what makes it special.
By Hananh Hellman • 2025-01-08
Media coverage of total solar eclipses often involves interviewing a diverse range of people, from volunteers to astronomers.
By Hananh Hellman • 2024-06-29
Meet Nazmus “Naz” Nasir, one of our Eclipse Megamovie Megastars!
By Hananh Hellman • 2024-10-15
Citizen scientist Hy Tran, known for his guidance and expertise, is among the standout contributors to Eclipse Megamovie for a variety of reasons.
By Hananh Hellman • 2024-08-20
Thank you to Ethan Martinez, Matthew Vitullo, Obinna Kalu, Nick Carales, and Dr. Gurman Gill for undertaking this machine learning project with the purpose of identifying various stages of solar eclipse in photographs. This project utilized the 2017 Eclipse Megamovie dataset containing thousands of eclipse images submitted by participatory scientists (previously referred to as citizen scientists) after the 2017 total solar eclipse.
By Aurore Simonnet • 2024-03-12
We invite you to join Alkina and sentient spaceship Epo, as they embark once more, on an exciting journey through space! Alkina, joined by alien Ambassadors, are on route to observe a Solar Eclipse phenomenon in a distant galaxy. While on their way, Alkina brings up factoids about Solar Eclipses, notably regarding an event that occurred on Earth. Discussions arise as everyone learns about the fascinating astronomical event...until they reach their destination for "the show"!
By EM Team • 2023-12-08
The volunteer meeting will take place on Monday, December 18th at 5pm. We are also launching our office hours beginning that day, so we will be available 30 minutes before the start of the meeting to answer questions and chat about the project. This meeting in particular will feature a presentation given by EM2024 Science PI Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros from UC Berkeley.
By Hannah Hellman • 2023-11-02
When Laura Peticolas submitted the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 (EM2024) grant for funding in 2022, we proposed to give away 100 3-D printed equatorial mounts to ensure that we would receive high quality photographs of the Sun’s corona. For our project’s purposes, “high quality” means that we would be able to reliably identify transient plasma plumes.
By James R. Riordan • 2023-10-18
In this article, Dr. James Riordan discusses several different participatory science projects in which citizen scientists can participate during the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. Megamovie is featured there, as well as Soundscapes and SunSketcher.
By Hannah Hellman • 2023-10-10
On June 19th, 1927, Virginia Woolf traveled more than 219 miles, from London to North Yorkshire, to see a total solar eclipse. In her essay, “The Sun and the Fish,” written in 1928 (one year after her experience), she refers to this eclipse as, simply, “the dawn.” In that essay she marvels at the sense of unity and purpose that she shared with everyone else who traveled through the night on trains scheduled specifically for this celestial event.
By NASA • 2023-10-02
NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie project is back for the 2024 total solar eclipse---and is seeking volunteers! During the four minutes of this solar experience, the sun's atmosphere, or corona, will become visible. It’s a rare time when we are able to take photographs of the corona from Earth on a large scale.
By NASA • 2023-07-19
Five years after partnering with Google and inspiring citizen scientists to journey out to view the Great American total solar eclipse, the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 (EM2024) team has been funded by NASA to bring high-quality DSLR imagery to the forefront of solar coronal studies.
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