2000 SPACE SCIENCE VIDEOTAPES |
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| NATURES YULETIDE GIFT: THE LAST ECLIPSE OF THE MILLENNIUM | G00-103 | 12/19/00 | 00:07:33 | Holiday revelers who happen to find solar filters under their Christmas tree this year can put the unusual gift to immediate use. That's because a solar eclipse is coming on Christmas Day, 2000. Across parts of North America, the winter landscape will briefly assume an eerie cast, and cooler-than-usual winds might swirl as the New Moon glides across the face of the Yuletide Sun. But don't expect the lights to go out completely. This eclipse will be a partial one -- at most 72% of the Sun's diameter will be occulted by the Moon.
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| ITEM (1): 2000 Eclipse Animation - This animation depicts what viewers in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area will see during the December 25, 2000 partial solar eclipse.
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| ITEM (2): Viewing Guide - The eclipse will be visible throughout nearly all of North America (except Alaska and the Yukon), as well as from most of Mexico and the Caribbean. The beginning phase of the partial solar eclipse will begin shortly after 11:03 a.m. EST with the real action beginning at 12:41 p.m. EST with the maximum phase of the eclipse. The partial eclipse will end at approximately 2:16 p.m. EST. To find out how the eclipse will look in your home town, find the still frame that corresponds to the maximum eclipse in your area.
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| ITEM (3): Eclipse Viewing Tips w/NASA Astronomer Dr. Fred Espenak
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| ITEM (4): Artificial Eclipses - NASA uses artificial eclipses to continuously monitor the Sun's corona. Time-lapse sequences by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) instrument onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft (SOHO).
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