Thursday, 30 May 2019

First moving picture of a total solar eclipse restored to 4K quality

Still frame from Nevil Maskelyne's footage of a solar eclipse, filmed in North Carolina on May ...

As part of a celebration of Victorian cinema, the British Film Institute (BFI) and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) have released the oldest known moving picture of a solar eclipse. Recently restored to 4K quality by conservation experts at the BFI National Archive, the one-minute-eight-second film is a recording of the total eclipse of the Sun made by British magician and pioneering filmmaker Nevil Maskelyne in North Carolina on 28 May, 1900.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2EJGz9P

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