Williams College—Hopkins Observatory, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
to Akademgorodok, outside Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia
Jay Pasachoff, Bryce Babcock, William Wagner, Paul Rosenthal (Williams College)
John Seiradakis and colleagues (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Robert Lucas (University of Sydney, Australia)
in collaboration with Allya Nestorenko (State University of Novosibirsk) and Igor
Nestorenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Akademgorodok
1) high-cadence (5 Hz) observations of oscillations in the coronal red and green emission
lines
2) high-resolution white-light coronal photography, meant for post-processing by
Druckmüller
3) coronal green-line photography on and off band
"All observations were successful."
Jay Pasachoff
Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris: in Biysk, the Altaï, Siberia (south of Novosibirsk)
Serge Koutchmy, Luc Damé, and a large team
Solar total eclipse observations in China supported by NSFC and CAS grants:
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing and
Yunnan):
1) Coronal spectral observations at near-IR and other wavelengths
2) Low coronal images with high spatial resolutions
3) Radio dynamic spectral observations at 2-5.5 GHz of the solar corona.
Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing):
1) Flash spectra near D3 line using a spectrograph fed with heliostat.
2) High time cadence imaging of solar inner corona at 5303 A.
3) Observing K-corona spectra in the range of 3700-4700 A.
4) Vulcanoids are a hypothesized population of small asteroid-like bodies in orbits
interior to that of Mercury. During the total Solar Eclipse in China, the search limiting
magnitude will be extended to more than 12.0 mag.
5) Radio observations at 8.6mm and 2.5cm wavelengths.
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing):
1) Radio observations of Ionosphere during solar total eclipse, etc.
"All groups of Chinese Solar Physics community have successfully recorded observing
data during the Eclipse Expedition in Jinta, Jiuquan, China on 1 August 2008. The
participants of an "International Workshop on Solar Magnetism, Corona and Space
Weather---Chinese Space Solar Telescope Science" visited the observing site. The
weather was very clear that day and people were excited in experiencing the wonderful
moment. Detailed analysis of these data will be presented later."
Yihua Yan
Observatory Upice, Czech Republic
from: Marcel Belik, Observatory Upice
Organization: Observatory Upice, Czech Republic
Participants: Eva Markova (chief), Marcel Belik, Ladislav Krivsky, Hana
Druckmüllerová (Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno
University of Technology) and Hynek Bulir (Czech Radio)
Place: Novosibirsk (Russia)
Programme: White-light corona with 1875/100 mm telescope (6x9 classical
film), MTO1000 telescope (24x36 classical film), MTO500 (Canon EOS 20D),
Pentacon 200 mm (Canon EOS 350D), Pentacon 200 mm (classical film) and Canon 1D
Mark II with MC 3M-5CA 8/500 mm
All observations are carried out within the MMT (Mathematical Methods of
Visualization of Solar Corona) project framework of Miloslav Druckmüller:
http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/eclipse/
Astronomical Institute of the Slovakian Academy of Sciences
Vojtech Rusin, Tatranska Lomnica
in Mongolia - Bor Udzuur camp (V. Rusin and 2 colleagues). We will stay together with
Mongolian collegaues from Center of Astronomy and Geophysics (Prof. D. Batmunkh is
a responsible person) and with Mr. Peter Aniol (Germany) and Prof. M. Druckmüller
(Czech Republic). Program: 'Study of fine structures on the white light corona'. Several
telescopes will be used, max. 1200 mm, equipped with a digital cameras.
1/ The white-light corona with similar lenses and cameras similarly to the way they were
photographed by Aniol and Druckmuller in Libya.
2/ The green corona (530.3 nm) and 'background' in its vicinity. Both filters have
transmissions 0.03 nm); telephoto lens 500 mm.
3/ comparison of the eclipse green corona with SECCHI/EUVI corona
"White-light corona, 530,3 nm (3 A passband filter) a H-alpha region succesfully
observed very close to Altay region, nearly 100 km northern as Jen Winter. Weather was
excellent. Just returned to Ulaan Baatar. The journey was very hard. More informations
later."
Vojtech Rusin
Glenn Schneider, Steward Obs., University of Arizona, in collaboration with Jay
Pasachoff, Joel Moskowitz, Jay Friedland
from an airplane at latitude 83° over the Arctic
http://nicmosis.as.arizona.edu:8000/ECLIPSE_WEB/ECLIPSE_08/TS
E2008_EFLIGHT.html
including still and video photography from a gyro-stabilized platform
University of Hawaii
Shadia Habbal, Jeff Kuhn
in the Gobi desert
as of July 16, 2008, from Xavier Jubier:
" I was going to be in the Xinjiang province along the Mongolian border, but this year the
weather over there appears to be quite different than the last two years. We have set up a
camp for NASA and UH Institute for Astronomy but are now likely going to relocate to
our secondary viewing site in the Gansu province a thousand miles to the southeast, in the
vicinity of the Chinese Space Center, where the weather has been quite good lately."
Xavier Jubier: Gobi Desert
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_20080801_pg01.html
Mongolian blog from cheryn@flushleft.com
http://ontheroad.destinationtbd.com/
diameter measurements near the edge
Paul Maley: http://www.eclipsetours.com
From David Dunham: "An American expedition (Ring of Fire Expedition from Houston,
TX) plans to observe from 2 locations near the southern limit near Hami, China, while
German and Spanish observers (from the European Section of IOTA) plan to observe
from locations near both limits near Novosibirsk."
Ron Dantowitz, Dexter-Southfield Schools
infrared airplane observations