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...Mexican village of Miahuatlan, another group-headed by Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy-will make ground-based observations of the sun's corona. Jay M. Pasachoff '63, research associate in Astrophysics, will photograph the corona's visible light with a special telescope...
...PASACHOFF had also proposed that NASA and Air Force use the SR-71, a high-flying reconnaissance plane, during the eclipse. Since the SR-71 can attain speeds of at least 2000 miles per hour-several hundred miles faster than the eclipse shadow at some points-it could prolong eclipse observation-time by an hour or more. The jet could also position itself anywhere within the moon's shadow...
Federal budget stringencies apparently prevented the project this time, but shortly before leaving for Mexico. Pasachoff said that an SR-71 or SST modified for eclipse work may well fly within the next few years...
During the 3 minutes of the eclipse's totality, Jay M. Pasachoff 63, research associate in Astrophysics, will photograph the spectrum of the sun's corona-the shifting white halo of ionized gases that extends millions of miles from the sun's surface. These visible light spectra will provide a detailed picture of the chemical and physical events in the corna...
...Pasachoff plans to report on the expedition for National Geographic, one of the group's sponsors...