Groups from Texas to Maine will take part in a transcontinental relay race to record the sun’s corona and contribute to an hour-long movie of the eclipse.
Katy Kiser, a high school junior in Kemp, Tex., practices calibrating a telescope for a NASA-funded project to capture images of the solar corona during the eclipse. There’s one stoplight in Kemp, Tex. About 1,200 people live in this city, roughly 45 miles southeast of Dallas. Asked what they do for fun, high school students shrug and mention the Dairy Queen.on Monday , Kemp will become a scientific hot spot as the city is engulfed in the moon’s shadow during the total solar eclipse.
It’s been a community effort. The Kemp students will be heading Site 7, bringing their telescope setup to farm land next to a gravel pit in the nearby town of Rosser, Tex. They secured access to the spot, which is even closer to the centerline of the eclipse than Kemp, with the help their school’s assistant principal, Kasie Hodges, who put the team in contact with the landowner.
The same is true for Alejandra Martinez, a seventh-grade science teacher in Eagle Pass, Tex., a city on the border with Mexico. Martinez is also part of a CATE team and is excited to give her students a glimpse of what it’s like to collect data. “If you’re at a single station on the ground, you’re only going to get a few minutes of observing, and that really limits what you can observe, especially if you’re trying to look for things that change on the sun,” said Amir Caspi, a solar physicist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who is leading the Citizen CATE 2024 project.Scientists have also tried to keep up with the eclipse by flying planes in the path of totality, but CATE offers a different approach.
They called up a friend whose family oversees a property down the road and got permission to set up there instead.In Kemp, the students had to secure a power source. The band director, a self-described space nerd, was happy to lend them a generator. During a practice run in late February, the team had the telescope all set up but had to drive a few minutes away to the nearest restroom.
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