Planning Workshop for Observations and Outreach Activities During the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 August 2017

日全食总是为科学探索和发现提供了独特的机会，也为各行各业和各个年龄段的人们提供了见证大自然的机会。这是最迷人的美。2017年8月21日，一场罕见的日全食将会发生，它将穿越美国大陆，从俄勒冈州开始，到南卡罗来纳州结束。上一次这样的场合是在1878年7月29日。Marvel和Habbal是这里的主要研究人员，他们是一个委员会的成员，该委员会计划举办一系列研讨会，将科学家、观测者、教育工作者、业余天文学家和商业伙伴聚集在一起，为这一独特的事件做计划。第一次研讨会于2012年4月14日至15日在马里兰州举行，约有50名与会者。该奖项是为了支持将于2014年8月21日至22日在密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校举行的第二届研讨会，该大学位于阴影地带。它将把日食专家、教育工作者和科学家聚集在一起，在日食路径上最大的大学的位置计划2017年的事件。研讨会将允许制定计划，利用2017年日食独特的科学和公众宣传潜力。通过穿越延伸的美国大陆，2017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，从西北开始到东南结束。这样的时间跨度将提供机会在几秒、几分钟、甚至一个多小时的时间尺度上捕捉日冕结构的时间变化和空间特征。由于可以沿着日全食的路径设置许多相同的实验，以最大限度地提高成功的机会，2017年的日食有望获得最佳的科学成果。这项活动的更广泛影响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。本次研讨会将侧重于发展独特的观测和天文实验推广活动的想法和计划，这些活动将涉及美国人口的很大一部分，以及来自全球不同国家的大量科学家，业余爱好者和游客，并吸引所有年龄段的公众参与短暂的天文现象和科学发现的兴奋和美丽。此外，讲习班将允许对日食观测进行规划，这将测试新的技术和概念，以便以后在地面和天基天文台中加以结合。

Total solar eclipses invariably offer unique opportunities for scientific explorations and discoveries, and for people of all walks of life and ages to witness one of Nature?s most fascinating display of beauty. On August 21, 2017, a rare total solar eclipse event will occur that will traverse the continental United States, starting in Oregon and ending in South Carolina. The previous such occasion was on 29 July 1878.Drs. Marvel and Habbal, the principal invesitgators here, are members of a committee planning a series of workshops to bring together scientists, observers, educators, amateur astronomers and business partners to plan for this unique event. The first workshop was held on 14-15 April, 2012 in Maryland, with approximately 50 attendees. This award is to support the second workshop to be held August 21-22, 2014, at the University of Missouri, Columbia, which lies in the shadow band. It will bring together eclipse experts, educators and scientists to plan for this 2017 event at the location of the largest university along the eclipse path.The workshop will 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 focus on developing ideas and plans for unique observations and outreach activities in astronomical experiments that will involve a significant fraction of the population of the USA, as well as a large number of scientists, amateurs and visitors from diffrent countries across the globe, and for engaging the general public of all ages in the excitement and beauty of transient astronomical phenomena and scientific discoveries. 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.