NBC Nightly News - 1984-05-30
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[0:00] week on Channel 4 News.
[0:04] >> A spectacular eclipse of the sun at
[0:06] midday today. Highly visible across a
[0:09] big chunk of the American South.
[0:14] [music] This is NBC Nightly News
[0:17] reported by Tom Brokoff.
[0:19] Good evening. It's easy to see why
[0:22] ancient civilizations were so terrified
[0:24] by a solar eclipse. Even today when we
[0:27] know so much about this phenomenon, it's
[0:29] still a very spooky experience. Today's
[0:32] near total eclipse was a spectacular
[0:34] show and a rare opportunity for
[0:37] scientific observation. Robert Bazelle
[0:39] tonight on the darkness at noon.
[0:43] The path of the eclipse took it first
[0:45] into Louisiana along the Mississippi.
[0:47] Hundreds of amateur and professional
[0:49] astronomers along with a lot of other
[0:51] people gathered to watch. The
[0:53] astronomers came from across the country
[0:55] and they used all sorts of instruments
[0:57] to study the sun.
[0:59] >> An eclipse is one of the big things that
[1:01] an astronomer can see in his life and
[1:03] there are very few of them.
[1:05] >> It is the event of 1984.
[1:08] >> In my case, I won't see it in my
[1:10] lifetime again.
[1:11] >> As the moon covered more and more of the
[1:12] sun, the light took on unfamiliar hues
[1:16] and the temperature dropped suddenly.
[1:18] This was downtown New Orleans. Finally,
[1:21] the moment of maximum eclipse. As the
[1:24] moon passed in front of the sun, the
[1:26] twinkling lights called Bailey's beads
[1:28] were visible.
[1:36] >> After the few seconds of maximum
[1:37] eclipse, the beads caused by the sun's
[1:40] light shining through the moon's
[1:41] mountains and valleys could be seen on
[1:43] the sun's opposite edge. As the moon
[1:45] passed across the other side o