EXCHANGE: Eclipse trackers to contribute to more research
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — While most people were reveling in totality during the 2017 solar eclipse, a small team of local amateur astronomers were hard at work, carefully training their telescopes on the corona of light and plasma visible at the sun's outer edges.
Their hundreds of photographs are now in the hands of researchers at the National Solar Observatory and other institutes, who are using them to study the atmosphere of the sun and its weather.