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This is the oldest surviving video of a total solar eclipse.<\/p>\n

The grainy marvel was taken nearly 120 years ago on May 28, 1900, by a British magician-turned-filmmaker named Nevil Maskelyne, according to a report on May 30 from the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Film Institute<\/a> in London. The original film fragment, captured on a British Astronomical Association expedition to North Carolina, was scanned and recently restored by conservation experts at the BFI National Archive.<\/p>\n

Maskelyne developed a special telescope adapter for his camera to film the eclipse without frying his equipment. The 1900 eclipse was actually his second attempt. His first, an eclipse in India in 1898, was successful, but his film canister was stolen on the trip back to England.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a wonderful archival discovery,\u201d curator Joshua Nall of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge, England said in a statement. \u201cIt is a really striking record of both early cinema and late Victorian eclipse observing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other observers of the same eclipse measured the temperature of the suns corona<\/a>, or its wispy outer atmosphere, and the temperature and pressure <\/a>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a>
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