OSP Round Table April 11 th 2017 What is solar physics Stories Einstein Eclipses Eclipse ballooning Where you can see the eclipse and why totality is totally the way to go Famous eclipses Einstein and General Relativity ID: 598190
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The story of Einstein, imagination, and the Eclipse Ballooning Project
OSP Round Table
April
11
th
, 2017Slide2
What is solar physics?Slide3
StoriesEinstein
Eclipses
Eclipse ballooning
Where
you can see the eclipse and why totality is totally the way to goSlide4Slide5
Famous eclipses: Einstein and General RelativitySlide6
Einstein and General RelativitySlide7
Testing General Relativity Slide8
The African Island Principe, 5/29/1919 Slide9Slide10
After nearly 4 decadesSlide11Slide12
Sun, Earth, Moon danceSlide13Slide14
Montana Space Grant ConsortiumSlide15
High Altitude Ballooning
Space-like environment
Mission-like
Multidisciplinary
100,000 feet up; flights last ~2 hours
Typical high altitude balloon flightSlide16
Eclipse Ballooning
Hundreds of millionsSlide17
Primary Challenges
Technology
Weight
Cost
Regulations
Bureaucracy
Massive collaboration
TimeSlide18Slide19
Let’s try to change this!Slide20
How it all works
Ground station antennas
Iridium Modem
900 MHz still
5.8 GHz video
Ground station computer
Web
Ethernet
terminate
Xbee
Data server
XbeeSlide21
It’s all about perspectiveSlide22
Eclipse Radiosonde Science
What happens in the atmosphere as the eclipse shadow blasts across 3,000 miles in 90 minutes?
How do we measure that?Slide23
Your Local Eclipse
Casper,
WY
Billings,
MT
94%
Obscuration
Path of
Totality
Casper is a 4 hour drive from Billings
Bozeman,
MT
95%
Obscuration
Rexburg, IDSlide24
August
21st
, 2017
Where will you be?Slide25
NASA’s eclipse websitehttps://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/Slide26
Watch live on NASAand StreamEclipse.live
*8-21-2017*
http://eclipse.montana.edu