On the 15 May 2000 SOHO observed the alignment of 4 planets, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn - on the opposite side of the Sun. This video of the ESA TV Service starts with a 20 second video sequence of these planets entering the filed of view of the LASCO instrument of SOHO, and leaving it again after having disappeared behind the sun.
Futher SOHO highlights in the programme include various observations of the Sun's surface and phenomena by SOHO's EIT instrument that observes the Sun's radiation in the extreme ultraviolet, which is absorbed by the Earth's atomosphere and can only be observed by spaceborne insturments.
All video and animation sequences are slated and have been converted to a lenght convenient for use on television.

01:00:33 Title Slates
01:00:58 LASCO observations of planetary alignment with captions
00:01:32 LASCO observations of planetary alignment without captions
00:01:54 Slate
01:02:02 EIT obervations
01:02:15 Slate
01:02:25 Comparison of 3 EIT images
01:02:46 Slate
01:02:56 Moreton wave over sun's surface leading to a coronal mass ejection
01:03:13 Slate
01:03:23 Another moreton wave and coronal mass ejection in 1997
01:03:59 Slate
01:04:09 EIT showing magnetic fields on Sun's surface
01:04:39 Slate
01:04:49 EIT over the period of 1 month
01:05:04 Slate
01:05:14 CU sun's surface and mass ejection
01:05:21 Slate
01:05:32 Zoom in to active region of sun's surface
01:06:14 Slate
01:06:25 Entire roation of sun's surface
01:06:44 Slate
01:06:54 Sun's activity over a period of 24 hours in 1998
01:08:15 Slate
01:08:25 Coronal mass ejection
01:08:35 Slate
01:08:45 EIT observation of large ejection
01:09:12 Slate
01:09:22 Composite images from 3 EIT wavelengnths
01:09:54:00 END