Solar Eclipse Social Media Guide

Are you ready for the August 21, 2017 North American Solar Eclipse? You'd better be! And, if you are on this blog, you are likely going to be taking photographs of the event and, because this is 2017, you will want to share them on social media. So, here is the brief, official unofficial B&H Photo social media guide to the big show!

Whom should you follow?

1. NASA and NASA EDGE

Your tax dollars are hard at work—doing some really cool stuff! The National Aeronautics and Space Administration cares deeply about the sun and moon daily—not just when the two align! Check out some of their solar eclipse social activities. But don’t stop there, NASA has a family of social media outlets that take you from Earth science and climate change to interplanetary travel to deep space telescope action.

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/nasa/

https://www.instagram.com/NASAGoddard/

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/NASA/

https://www.facebook.com/nasaedgefan

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceSciEdu

https://twitter.com/NASASun

https://twitter.com/NASA_EDGE

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAexplorer

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF14609877EF3419B

https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAedge

Snapchat:

https://www.snapchat.com/add/nasa

Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/nasa-eclipse2017

2. The Sun Today

C. Alex Young is a heliophysicist [awesome title] at NASA and runs his own social media outlets.

Web:

http://www.thesuntoday.org/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/thesuntoday

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/thesuntoday

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/thesuntoday

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.com/thesuntoday/

3. Sun Viewer

When you need more sun!

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/SunViewer

4. The Google Eclipse Megamovie

B&H Photo is proud to be a supporter of this citizen-science project along with the University of California Berkeley and Google. Go there now and see if you can still register to become a part of this historic project!

Web:

https://eclipsemega.movie/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Eclipse2017MM