Eclipse

Eclipse|是黄金时段NOVA系列中的一个一小时节目，将在1991- 1992年期间在公共广播服务（PBS）上向全国播出。该项目将记录1991年7月11日发生的日全食，并在夏威夷大岛莫纳克亚山顶的天文台进行研究。该计划将遵循三条叙事线。首先是日食本身，以及它对正在进行的日冕和太阳物理学科学研究的重要性。第二个问题将是对太阳的持续了解，特别是太阳变化的问题。第三章将把这次日食放在日食科学史上。日食经过大型天文台大楼是一种独特的现象——以前从未发生过，而且几代人都不会再发生。这四分钟的日全食将使太阳天文学家第一次将深空仪器转向太阳。然而，与此同时，这次日食标志着许多观察者认为长达130年的研究计划的结束。日食|将为观众提供一幅壮观的自然现象的肖像，以及科学家们试图实时从太阳中提取新知识的画面。除了广播之外，Eclipse|还将在7年的时间里出现在大约7 -9万间教室中。

Eclipse| is a one-hour program within the prime-time series NOVA, to be broadcast nationally during the 1991-92 season on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The program will document the total eclipse of the sun that takes place on July 11, 1991, and the research performed at the observatories located atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. The program will trace three narrative lines. The first will be that of the eclipse itself and its importance for ongoing scientific investigation of the solar corona and solar physics. The second will be that of ongoing problems in understanding the sun, especially the issue of solar variability. The third will place this eclipse within the history of eclipse science. The passage of an eclipse over a major observatory complex is a unique occurrence -- it has never happened before, and will not happen again for several generations. The four minutes of totality will allow solar astronomers to turn deep space instruments on the sun for the first time. At the same moment, however, this eclipse marks what many observers feel is the end of a 130 year research program. Eclipse| will provide its audience with a portrait of a spectacular natural phenomenon and of scientists attempting in real-time to tease new knowledge out of the sun. In addition to its broadcast, Eclipse| will be seen in an estimated 70-90,000 classrooms over a seven year period.