Media interview Laatsch about eclipse research
The Bangor Daily News, The County and News Center Maine interviewed Shawn Laatsch, director of the University of Maine Versant Power Astronomy Center, regarding the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8. Laatsch, his students and citizen scientists that he trained will capture photographs of the eclipse as part of a research project called the Citizen Continental-America Telescope Eclipse. The project, which is funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, established 35 stations from Texas to Maine that fall on the centerline of the eclipse’s path of totality. Bangor Daily News will be carrying a livestream of the event.