Eclipse Solar American 2017

Eclipse Solar is coming to the USA on Monday, August 21, 2017!

This app requires Camera 2 API to capture images that meet the project’s scientific requirements. Not all manufacturers have included appropriate functionality, and therefore some of the photographic functions of Megamovie Mobile may not work with your Android phone. However, you will still be able use the interactive map and countdown features. You will receive a notification within the app describing which features are supported when you open the app on your phone.

Watch a live NASA stream of the eclipse as it travels across the continental United States, calculate your view with our interactive eclipse map and get a virtual view in our eclipse simulator. While you wait, check out some of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's solar research and get even closer to the sun with near-live views from space.

The Smithsonian Solar Eclipse app is your interactive guide to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse, giving Americans a front row seat to a rare celestial event. It is a free app, made possible by funding from the Smithsonian Women's Committee (SWC), with content from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and powered by SkySafari 5, the next-generation award-winning astronomy app for Android.

Use your smartphone or DSLR camera to help astronomers track and photograph the next total solar eclipse across the USA this August, 2017. Learn about the phases of the solar eclipse, from first contact when the Moon passes between the Earth and Sun, until fourth contact at the end of the solar eclipse.

Today our telescopes and instruments send back high resolution images of the Sun and other data to study phenomena including how the solar atmosphere is energized, the topology of solar features, and space weather, to name just a few. During the 2017 solar eclipse, SAO’s AIR-Spec instrument will ride along a unique aircraft built for scientific research in order to measure plasma emission from the sun.

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is one part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,

A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon completely obscures the Sun’s surface or photosphere and cuts off all direct rays of sunlight from the observer, revealing the Sun’s corona, which looks like a diamond wedding ring. Partial eclipses occur when only part of the Moon or Sun is occluded during the eclipse.