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Total solar eclipse, August 21, 2017
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A total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, August 21, 2017. 
It will have a magnitude of 1.0306 that will be visible from a narrow corridor through the United States. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes 40 seconds at 36°58.5'N 87°39.3'W in the Bainbridge/Sinking Fork area of Christian County, Kentucky just northwest of Hopkinsville, Kentucky

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Title: The U.S. Eclipse Megamovie in 2017: a white paper on a unique outreach event
Authors: Hugh S. Hudson, Scott W. McIntosh, Shadia R. Habbal, Jay M. Pasachoff, Laura Peticolas
(Version v2)

Totality during the solar eclipse of 2017 traverses the entire breadth of the continental United States, from Oregon to South Carolina. It thus provides the opportunity to assemble a very large number of images, obtained by amateur observers all along the path, into a continuous record of coronal evolution in time; totality lasts for an hour and a half over the continental U.S. While we describe this event here as an opportunity for public education and outreach, such a movie -with very high time resolution and extending to the chromosphere - will also contain unprecedented information about the physics of the solar corona.

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A total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, August 21, 2017.
It will have a magnitude of 1.0306 that will be visible from a narrow corridor through the United States. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes 40 seconds at 36°58.5'N 87°39.3'W in Christian County, Kentucky just northwest of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

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