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

主要发起人是一个委员会的成员，该委员会召开了一次规划研讨会，为2017年8月21日横跨美国大陆的罕见日全食做准备。研讨会将于2012年4月9日至11日在科罗拉多州博尔德市的高海拔天文台举行，日食专家和科学家将齐聚一堂，为2017年的活动做准备。研讨会将允许制定计划，以利用2017年日食独特的科学和公众推广潜力。通过穿越延伸的美国大陆，2017年日食的阴影带将提供从西北部开始到东南部结束的90分钟内几乎不间断的日冕观测。这样的跨度将提供机会，在几秒、几分钟、一小时以上的时间尺度上捕捉日冕结构的时间变化和空间特征。由于可以在全食的道路上建立一些相同的实验来最大化成功的机会，2017年的日食承诺了一个最佳的科学成果。这一活动的更广泛的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机会。这次研讨会将为专家们提供第一次会议，集体制定公共实验和推广的想法，充分利用2017年美国各地90分钟的活动时间，并涉及相当一部分全国人口以及大量来自国外的游客。此外，讲习班还将规划日食观测，以测试新技术和新概念，以便日后纳入地面和天基观测站。

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.