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CitizenCATE

@citizenCATE2017

CitizenCATE is a collaboration among 68 volunteer groups to take digital images for citizen science in astronomy, starting with the 21 Aug total solar eclipse!

 Tucson, AZ
citizencate.org
Joined August 2017
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Lunar eclipse movie sequence, first cut.
Been a long time; we're doing a different thing now :)
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Not the 2020 eclipse: here's a sequence of image from CATE site at Weiser High School, from 21 Aug 2017. Thanks to Alexandra Hart and Filip Szczerek for the recent help. More movies on the way!
Anniversary of the Citizen CATE open access paper: 8858 downloads and counting! iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
Acceleration of Coronal Mass Ejection Plasma in the Low Corona as Measured by the Citizen CATE...

Acceleration of Coronal Mass Ejection Plasma in the Low Corona as Measured by the Citizen CATE...

Acceleration of Coronal Mass Ejection Plasma in the Low Corona as Measured by the Citizen CATE Experiment, Penn, Matthew J, Baer, Robert, Walter, Donald, Pierce, Michael, Gelderman, Richard, Ursache,...

iopscience.iop.org
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Tom Polakis, one of the most creative amateur astronomers on Earth, posted a time sequence of a few hours of globular cluster images showing an abundance of variable stars: a4.pbase.com/o10/64/297864/1…
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CATE team #32 leader Jack Erickson from Cienega High School was selected as @vailschools Teacher of the Year! Plus, a CATE follow-up project won the CHS science fair and advances to @azSarsef ! Congrats guys!
Vail high school students following-up with more STEM work after their eclipse experience: tucson.com/news/science/vail…
Vail high school students get a glimpse of creative telescope project

Vail high school students get a glimpse of creative telescope project

Vail students shadowed astronomer Matt Penn and helped him work on creating a simple pointing system for telescope in Hawaii.

tucson.com
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It was an honor to tell our officials about all the great work the Citizen CATE team did! xitter.cf/NatSolarObs/status/913…
National Solar Observatory (@NatSolarObs) profile pictureNational Solar Observatory@NatSolarObs28 Sep 2017
All set for the Eclipse Hearing this morning with @mpenn_nso @hbhammel @AURADC @MckayMyles @clairaftery @NSF @AdlerPlanet @NASA
Image from National Solar Observatory (@NatSolarObs)
Image from National Solar Observatory (@NatSolarObs)
Image from National Solar Observatory (@NatSolarObs)
Image from National Solar Observatory (@NatSolarObs)
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Pls visit this House eclipse hearing "To Totality and Beyond" or watch online tomorrow: science.house.gov/legislatio…
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Honored and excited to talk about @citizenCATE2017 this week in DC. xitter.cf/NatSolarObs/status/912…
National Solar Observatory (@NatSolarObs) profile pictureNational Solar Observatory@NatSolarObs26 Sep 2017
#NSO Director @vmpillet & Astronomer @mpenn_nso prepare for a day of congressional visits on The Hill, starting with @RepPerlmutter
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Sample of the latest sequence of Citizen CATE Experiment data!
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Latest movies from our Citizen CATE 2017 experiment are up at: citizencate.org
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First @citizenCATE2017 solar wind results: animation shows an outflow event in south polar plumes. Quality will improve as data arrives
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Early results from some of the eclipse citizen science groups, including @citizenCATE2017 from Sky & Tel here: xitter.cf/SkyandTelescope/status…
Sky & Telescope (@SkyandTelescope) profile pictureSky & Telescope@SkyandTelescope23 Aug 2017
Remember those #eclipse citizen science projects? Preliminary results from @citizenCATE2017 @Eclipse2017MM & more! ow.ly/PUsE30eDgQz
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Thanks @CBSThisMorning for covering @citizenCATE2017 students from the tribal high school in Harlem MT. Great work! cbs.com/shows/cbs_this_morni…
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Extremely proud of the whole @citizenCATE2017 team; you guys rock! Now that you're all expert astro-imagers, what should we explore next? xitter.cf/NSF/status/89966142174…
U.S. National Science Foundation (@NSF) profile pictureU.S. National Science Foundation
@NSF21 Aug 2017
Today's #solareclipse is great for scientists & is the start of something even greater. Op-ed by NSF Dir Córdova: bit.ly/2whFFP3
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LASCO C2 image from SOHO Spacecraft shows some activity in the lower corona... eclipse on the way!
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