Participate In The Eclipse Megamovie
Applications for free DSLR mounts closes on September 25, 2023
We hope you are as excited about the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 as we are! We are proud to announce that we have a limited number of 3-D printed DSLR tracking camera mounts available for MegaVolunteers to help us get the highest quality scientific images during the eclipse for the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 (EM2024) project. We are looking for volunteers who are detail-oriented, dedicated to the goals and objectives of the EM2024 project, and who can commit to attending regular training sessions. If you are interested in receiving one of these mounts, take the survey linked below.
We are also looking for volunteers to participate after the eclipse to aid in the examination and use for science of the photographs taken during the eclipse. There will be more detail available soon, but for now we are looking for any volunteers who are proficient in Python code or implementation of Machine Learning (AI) in the arranging of photographs or other data. You will have the opportunity to answer so questions about your experience and expertise in the survey.
This survey will be a great first step in finding ways for anyone interested in participating in the EM2024 project, whether you are a photographer, maker, coder, astrophysicist, seasoned eclipse chaser, or otherwise curious about it all. The survey will take around five to ten minutes to complete, and if you are applying for a mount please keep in mind that we have only 100 to give away. There are plenty of other ways to participate in EM2024, though, and we are committed to helping as many people as possible experience the majesty and wonder of a solar eclipse–whether in the path of totality or out, indoors or outside, or even in five years when we are still using the data we collect to learn more and more about the sun.
A huge thank you to everyone who participated
Letter to the Volunteers who worked with us in 2017
Below is a letter sent out to those who volunteered with the Megamovie 2017 team. To find out how to hear about all the exciting things coming to the 2023 and 2024 eclipses, sign up to be a volunteer!
To our wonderful community of eclipse people,
In 2017 many of you helped us gaze at the Great American Total Solar Eclipse and capture some of the majesty of the sun and Earth's relationship with it and the moon. To see the video that was made with the images you took (or helped others take), feel free to visit https://eclipsemegamovie.org. The website is a work in progress, and if you have any feedback you would like to share we would love to hear it!
The 2017 Eclipse Megamovie was a first-of-its-kind citizen science project that resulted in tens of thousands of photos being submitted by hundreds of volunteers from locations across the United States during and after the 2017 total solar eclipse. The resulting video was completed in September 2018 by UC Berkeley graduate student Juan Camillo Guevara Gomez with assistance from undergraduate Tushar Singla. Sonoma State University (SSU) and UC Berkeley are continuing to improve the Megamovie, and mine the dataset for important scientific findings.
However, we have other exciting news! We are going to be organizing another Eclipse Megamovie! We will be using the many lessons we learned from our previous experience and we anticipate being able to do science more readily as well as a far more beautiful movie. We are looking for people to join our 2024 Eclipse Megamovie Photo and Machine Learning Teams.
If joining us for the next round of Eclipse Megamovie organization is something you would be interested in, please keep an eye out for the email to come with more information on how to sign up and what you can expect in your work with us.
Thank you for all that you helped us achieve in 2017 and 2018, and here's to another Megamovie and another total solar eclipse in 2024!
Photo by NASA/Aubrey Gemignani, NASA Media Usage License