Participate In The Eclipse Megamovie

Thank you for carefully taking photographs of the total solar eclipse showing the sun's atmosphere and uploading those photographs! We look forward to using your images to detect and learn more about the secret lives of solar jets.

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What are the different volunteer roles on the Eclipse Megamovie Team?

There are many different roles that are available to help with EM2024. Read more about each role below.

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. If you sign up to help analyze solar eclipse images for transient plasma flows in the solar corona, we will provide you with the competition information so you can access the python code and competition requirements.

This role is for anyone who is hoping to follow along with our project via a Newsletter or participate with a mobile phone via the SunSketcher mobile app.

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 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 Participatory 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!

A smiling woman in a store wearing a hat that says “2017 Total Solar Eclipse” holds up a handful of eclipse-viewing glasses fanned out so they can all be seen. In the background, a man stands at a counter and pays for his items.

Photo by NASA/Aubrey Gemignani, NASA Media Usage License

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