It has been a tremendous privilege to work with the incredible team at timeanddate.com on a five-and-a-half hour live broadcast of the Great American Eclipse.
One of the highlights was the screams of schoolchildren when darkness fell upon Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green:
Thank you to everyone who made our broadcast possible, including:
- Theo Wellington, Jordan Basham and Dr Richard Gelderman at Western Kentucky University
- Joel Donadel and Noémi Brousmiche at the European Space Agency in Kourou, French Guiana
- Erwan Prigent and everyone at the PULSAR Kourou Astronomy Club
- Professor Gordon Orians, University of Washington
- Monica Young, Sky & Telescope
- Julie Fooshee, Science Festival Alliance, MIT Museum
- Dr Jaya Satagopan
- Martin Stack, Mid Michigan Community College
- Marcia Witt
- Dr Donald Bruns
- Dawn Davis, Fort Sumter National Monument (South Carolina)
- Jimmie Lucht, Albany Visitors Association (Oregon)
- Charissa Sedor, Carnegie Science Center’s Buhl Planetarium (Pennsylvania)
- Hadley Andersen, Bishop Museum (Hawaii)
- Rocío Guadalupe Salazar Bastarrachea (Mérida, Mexico)
- Famri Rusdin (Palu, Indonesia)
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