Christmas 2000 Solar Eclipse Pictures and Accounts Sun. Wil Milan took this sequence of images over 116 minutes from Phoenix, Arizona. He used a Tele Vue 70mm wide-field telescope, Nikon digital camera, and Takahashi tracking mount.
Dark spots are sunspots.
Amateur astronomers of varying skill levels armed themselves with special eclipse glasses, welders goggles, binoculars, sheets of white paper, and masking tape, and braved often frigid temperatures, to safely watch the a bit of Moon shadow slide across the Sun. In the Northeastern United States, where 50 to 60 percent of the Sun was covered by the Moon, most people had clear skies. In Gainesville, Florida, James C. White II made a family event out of the eclipse. James C. White II gets the whole family involved in safely watching the eclipse. They projected images of the Sun onto screens held by other family members, and yet another relative took digital pictures of the activity and the eclipse.