Coronal Prediction for the August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Coronal Prediction for the August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

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The final prediction of the solar corona for the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse, developed by researchers at Predictive Science Inc. The images show two versions of the predicted brightness of polarized white light in the corona. The left image shows an image processed to simulate what would be seen when using a "Newkirk" radially graded filter. The image on the right is the polarized brightness on a log scale, sharpened using an "Unsharp Mask" filter. These are two different attempts to approximate what the human eye might see during the solar eclipse.

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Predictive Science Inc.

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