Kendra Gillis - Solar Physics REU 2016

Kendra Gillis

Brigham Young University Idaho

REU Student - Summer 2016
Montana State University

Advisors: Dr. Joseph Shaw

Research Project

I am working on making an all sky polarimeter. How I'm doing this is by putting a polarized filter behind a fish eye lens and then attaching that to a comercial grade camera. We want to build a small structure of three to four cameras, all with different polarized filters. This would then be used to stufy the polarization of the sky during the total solar eclipse in 2017.

Picture of camera

Resources

Midterm Presentation

Final Presentation