DEB Initiative

The Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast (DEB) Initiative, led by Bob Baer and Matt Penn of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, organizes volunteers as they capture images of the corona during the 2024 eclipse. Using identical instruments at more than 70 different locations across North America, participants document the moment-by-moment appearance of the corona throughout the eclipse. Comparing these images across locations, scientists track plumes of solar material in the difficult-to-study inner corona, estimating their speed and rate of acceleration and linking these observations to those from NASA spacecraft.
Music Credit: “Everything Will Be Fine” Paul Reeves [PRS] via Universal Production Music

Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)