Solar Total Eclipse 1999
ESA activities
International Science Committee To coordinate the ESA Eclipse '99 activities, an international Committee has been set up: ESA ECLIPSE99 International Science Committee
R.M. Bonnet (chairman), ESA Director of Science Programme
B.H. Foing (co-chairman), ESA ECLIPSE99 coordinator
A. Acker, ULP Strasbourg, Presidente Association des Planetariums
E. Antonucci, Professor, Turin observatory
J. Audouze, Director, Palais de la Découverte, Paris
F. Clette, chairman JOSO eclipse working group
R. Ferlet, President Societe Astronomique de France
B. Fleck, ESA, SOHO Project Scientist
M. Huber, Head ESA Space Science Dept.
K. Phillips, Rutherford Appleton Lab., Chair UK eclipse coordination
B. Schmieder, Obs. Meudon, President JOSO
M. Stavinschi, Director Bucharest Observatory
S. Vauclair, Toulouse, President Soc. Francaise Specialistes en Astronomie
O. von der Luhe, Freiburg, Director, Kiepenheuer Institute
J.C. Vial, Orsay, Director MEDOC centre
R. West, ESO, Public Outreach and Education
J. P. Zahn, President, European Astronomical Society Multi-site Local Organising Committee We have also set up a Local Organising Committee to support the science experiments and communication activities before and during the eclipse. We indicate the sites where the members will be present on the day of the eclipse, with their tasks, and possible languages for interview. Staff have been trained for media and about eclipse information. | Tasks | Sites | Languages (incl. English) | | B. Foing | Coordinator Overall | F, E, ES | | B. Battrick | ESA Publication ESTEC | E | | T. Beaufort | Eclipse Exp. ESTEC | F | | C. Bingham | SSD support ESTEC | E | | P. Brekke | SOHO support | F N | | J. Cami | Youth Camp Szombathely (HU) | NL, F | | J. Clavel | Vilspa coord. Vilspa | E F, E, S | | F. Drigani | SCI Communic ESTEC | I | | B. Fleck | SOHO support Munchen/Stuttgart | D | | M. Fridlund | SSD Noyen | S, E | | H. Graf | ESTEC PR ESTEC NL | D | | C. Habfast | ESA P.R. Paris | D, F | | S. Ihaddadene | SSD support ESTEC & F | F, Arabic | | C. Nilsson | SSD support ESTEC | N, SE, F | | S. Orlando | Science coord. Szombathely (HU) | I | | H. Olthof | ESA Prodex Bucarest | NL | | D. Koschny | Experiment Munchen | D | | H. Maree | PR Paris | NL F | | R. Marsden | Science/PR ESTEC/Belgium | E, NL | | D. Nelson | Graphics/media ESTEC | E | | E. Page | Science/PR UK Cornwall | E | | E. Rolfe | Science web ESTEC | E | | L. Sanchez | SOHO Data Coord.SOHO Goddard | ES, E | | P. Sonnentrucker | Science Strasbourg | F | | M. Talevi | SCI Communic. ESTEC | I | | B. Vandenbussche | Youth camp Szombathely (HU) | NL | | S. Volonte | Science/PR Belgium | F, I | | K.P. Wenzel | SSD support ESTEC/Germany | D | | J. Zarnecki | Science/PR Romania | E | | J. Zender | Data links Munchen | D | | B. Zufferey | ESA Prodex Bucarest | F | | Table 1. ESA Local Organising Committee | Multi-site SSD campaign coordinated with SOHO A multi-site eclipse campaign will provide a longer sequence of coronal observations. Some of the eclipse images will be transmitted for live internet distribution. The core SSD science experiments will build on previous eclipse campaigns to study temperature and density structure and dynamics in the corona, and to search for cool material in the very hot corona. These eclipse results will be analysed with SOHO data. See also the links to "Latest SOHO images" and "SOHO and the August 1999 eclipse". These pages will be updated during the experiments' preparation. | Site | Planned measurements | | SOHO | SOHO instruments, MEDOC images online | | UK- Cornwall | | | UK- Elderney | | | F- Noyon | High definition video | | B- Vitton | Photography | | F- Strasbourg | High definition video | | NL- ESTEC | Data collection and internet distribution | | D- Munich | High definition video, real-time video transmission | | H- Szombathely | Core SSD eclipse experiements, high definition video, real-time image transmission | | RO- Vilnica-Rimnicu | High definition video | | RO- Bucharest | High definition CCD, real-time internet | | Table 2. Multi-site eclipse campaign | Joint science communication activities at partner sites | SOHO activities | SOHO live images | | Eclipse from Space | Meteo and eclipse images | | UK- Cornwall | Support exhibition and media | | UK- Alderney | Science Comm. with Royal Astronomical Society | | F- Palais Decouverte | Exhibition (July-August) | | F- Museum Hist. Nat. Media resource center | Eclipse info (week before eclipse) | | F- Moselle | Nuit des Etoiles, TV magazine (10 August) | | F- Noyon | Societe Astronomique de France | | B- Vitton | Belgian Astronomy Society | | F- Strasbourg | European Science, education, cultural activities | | D- Stuttgart | Stuttgart municipality, Freiburg Obs., ESOC | | D- Munich | Bayern Astronomy Society, ESO | | AU- Salzburg/Graz | ASA, space agencies, Alpbach school participants | | H- Szombathely | Youth astronomy camp | | RO- Vilnica-Rimnicu | Eclipse maximum | | RO- Bucharest | Bucharest observatory, EAS, ESA Prodex | | | ESA SSD Astronomische Vereinigung West-München (AVWM) | | Table 3. Joint science communication activities at partner sites |
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