THINGS YOU CAN DO to participate and add to the work of scientists
Be part of an historic effort to measure the shape of the Sun. Enjoy the eclipse while your smartphone collects data for science.
Interested in contributing to the data analysis portion of the project?
APP DOWNLOAD: https://www.sunsketcher.org/download.php
At its core, SunSketcher is an app anyone can use to photograph the 2024 Great North American Eclipse. Mass participation will generate an incredible database of images that, when analyzed together, could allow scientists to map the Sun.
Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative
A nation-wide citizen science team broadcasting new and exciting views of eclipses. The DEB telescope imagery beta site is live! Imagery updates every 2 minutes when a site is observing.
February 23, 2024: As of today, we have 85 DEB observation sites. We are no longer accepting new teams for the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. If you would like to participate on a DEB observation team, you may do so by joining an existing team.
Welcome! Eclipse Megamovie 2024 (EM2024) is funded by NASA to discover the secret lives of solar jets and plumes. Many jets and plumes seem to disappear or change from the time they are formed on the Sun and when they move out into the solar wind.
To learn more about these solar phenomena, we will use photographs taken by volunteers to identify solar jets as they leave the Sun's surface and solar plumes as they grow and develop. Come join our research!
If you have a DSLR camera and a tripod, you can participate!
Citizen Science - The Radio JOVE Project
The scope of Radio JOVE Project has been extended to incorporate citizen science research in heliophysics.
By participating in the project, citizen scientists can
(1) gain hands-on experience in building and operating single-frequency radio telescopes constructed from inexpensive kits,
(2) make radio observations by operating their basic radio telescopes, and
(3) analyze the data obtained by the telescopes they constructed or from remote telescopes through the Internet.
With the help of citizen scientists, NASA subject matter experts (SMEs) will collect audio recordings from eclipses and analyze acoustic data to determine how disruptions in light and circadian rhythms may affect ecosystems.
Eclipse Overview - GLOBE Observer
GLOBE Eclipse is a temporary tool in the GLOBE Observer app (details about downloading the app) that will help you document air temperature and clouds during an eclipse. The tool is not visible in the app on a regular basis, but is only opened up when a solar eclipse is happening somewhere in the world.
Bounce radio signals off the Earth’s ionosphere – a region of charged particles high up in the atmosphere – to help research the eclipse's impact on Earth's atmosphere.
Citizen CATE 2024 | Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse 2024
Help study structures and changes in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, by taking images of the total eclipse in polarized light. In collaboration with about 40 teams of citizen scientists, Citizen Continental-America Telescope Eclipse (CATE) will make polarized observations of the Sun’s corona during the 2024 total solar eclipse as it crosses the United States from Texas to Maine. These relay teams of trained volunteers with identical telescopes along the eclipse path will allow us all an extended observation of the lower to middle corona.