Adding Eclipse Studies to Undergraduate Solar Astronomy Courses

威廉学院正在购买传感、数字化、数据记录和数据分析设备，这些设备使他们能够改造他们的新生研讨会和高级研讨会太阳天文学课程，以反映当前的仪器能力。特别是，他们正在利用1991年7月11日的日全食，这是可能发生的最长的一次日全食，也是一次天气预报极为有利的日全食，研究太阳色球中的振荡，以测试解释日冕加热的机制，并将实验装置和结果带入教室。实验结果与课程中已经描述的理论研究很好地吻合。这增加了大一的太阳天文学研讨会和初级/高级太阳天文学研讨会，前者目前只使用白光和氢阿尔法中太阳的直接望远镜图像，否则没有实验室组成部分。由此产生的材料也包括在天文学一般入门课程中。这些观察可以在随后的日食中重复进行，并且在持续的基础上重复这一过程。学院将提供等额的奖金。//

William College is purchasing sensing, digitizing, data recording, and data analyzing equipment which allows them to transform their freshman seminar and senior seminar solar-astronomy courses in order to reflect current instrumental capabilities. In particular, they are using the total solar eclipse of 11 July 1991, the longest possible solar eclipse and one with extremely favorable weather forecasts, to study oscillations in the solar chromosphere as a test of a mechanism to explain the heating of the solar corona, and to bring the experimental setup and results into the classroom. The experimental results mesh nicely with the theoretical studies already being described in the courses. This augments freshman seminar in solar astronomy, which currently uses only direct telescopic views of the sun in white light and in hydrogen alpha, and the junior/senior seminar in solar astronomy, which otherwise has no laboratory component. Resulting material is also being included in the astronomy general introductory courses. The observations can be repeated at subsequent eclipses, and the course involvement repeated on a continuing basis. The college will match the award with an equal amount of funds.//