# Solar Eclipse 2012 Partial Phase Starts

Here is the very beginning of the great annular eclipse of the sun on May 20, 2012 from Albuquerque, NM. It looks like nothing is happening for a few seconds, but at about the 20 second point (or so) there looks to be a slight little growing dent in the lower right-hand side of the sun. That is the moon starting to get in front of the sun, the so-called "first contact". The eclipse is on!

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: https://www.youtube.com/user/tgib42
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Eclipse_2012_Partial_Phase_Starts.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: https://www.youtube.com/user/tgib42
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/26754844?play=1)