A Planning Workshop for Observations and Outreach Activities During the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 August 2017; Boulder, Colorado; April 9-11, 2012

2017 年 8 月 21 日日全食期间观测和外展活动规划研讨会；

• 批准号: 1207470
• 负责人: Kevin Marvel
• 金额: $ 1.73万
• 依托单位: American Astronomical Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-01 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1207470&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Workshop; Observations; Outreach; Activities

The principal invesitgators are members of a committee convening a planning workshop to prepare for the rare total solar eclipse that will traverse the US continent on 21 August 2017. The workshop will be held April 9-11, 2012, at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, and will bring together eclipse experts and scientists to plan for this 2017 event. The workshop wii allow plans to be developed to capitalize on the unique scientific and public outreach potential of the 2017 eclipse. By traversing the extended US landmass, the shadow band of the 2017 eclipse will provide almost uninterrupted observations of the solar corona over 90 minutes, from its start in the northwest to its end in the southeast. Such a span will provide the opportunity to capture the temporal variations and spatial characteristics of coronal structures on times scales of fractions of seconds, to minutes, to over an hour. Since a number of identical experiments can be set up along the path of totality to maximize chances of success, the 2017 eclipse promises an optimal scientific yield.The broader impact of this activity will be in its ability to spark the interest of the public at large and to entice them to take part in exploratory and discovery opportunities. This workshop will provide the first meeting for specialists to collectively develop ideas for public experiments and outreach that would fully exploit the 90 minute duration of this 2017 event across the USA, and involve a significant fraction of the national population, as well as a large number of visitors from abroad. In addition, the workshop will allow planning for eclipse observations that will test new technologies and concepts for later incorporation in ground-based and space-based observatories.

主要研究人员是一个委员会的成员，该委员会召集了一个规划研讨会，为 2017 年 8 月 21 日横贯美国大陆的罕见日全食做准备。该研讨会将于 2012 年 4 月 9 日至 11 日在科罗拉多州博尔德的高海拔天文台举行，届时日食专家和科学家将齐聚一堂，为 2017 年的这一事件进行规划。 Wii 研讨会允许制定计划，以利用 2017 年日食的独特科学和公共宣传潜力。通过穿越美国广阔的陆地，2017 年日食的阴影带将在 90 分钟内提供几乎不间断的日冕观测，从西北的起点到东南的终点。这样的跨度将提供在几分之一秒、几分钟到一个多小时的时间尺度上捕获日冕结构的时间变化和空间特征的机会。由于可以沿着全食路径进行大量相同的实验，以最大限度地提高成功机会，因此 2017 年日食有望获得最佳的科学成果。这项活动的更广泛影响将在于它能够激发广大公众的兴趣，并吸引他们参与探索和发现的机会。本次研讨会将为专家们提供第一次会议，共同制定公共实验和推广的想法，充分利用 2017 年全美活动的 90 分钟持续时间，涉及全国人口的很大一部分以及大量来自国外的参观者。此外，研讨会还将规划日食观测，测试新技术和概念，以便稍后纳入地面和天基观测站。