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TECHNOLOGY Friday 18 august 2017

Can’t see the solar eclipse?

Tune in online or on TV

By SANDY COHEN coverage planned on TV tury “: CNN plans two hours
AP Entertainment Writer and online of the first solar of livestreaming, 360-de-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ronald eclipse to cross the United gree coverage accessible
Dantowitz has been look- States in 99 years. in virtual reality through
ing forward to Monday’s Still, witnessing totality — Oculus headsets beginning
solar eclipse for nearly 40 when the sun is completely at 1 p.m. EDT. Accompany-
years. An astronomer who obscured by the moon — is ing television coverage will
specializes in solar imaging, best done with the naked include reporting from Or-
he’s been photographing eye, not a camera, Dan- egon, Missouri, Tennessee
eclipses for more than three towitz said, adding that the and South Carolina.
decades, and will be using total eclipse is safe to view — “Eclipse Over America
14 cameras to capture the without special lenses. “: The PBS science series This March 9, 2016, file photo shows a total solar eclipse in
Aug. 21 celestial event. The “Enjoying totality by eye is NOVA is planning a quick Belitung, Indonesia. A solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, is
cameras have solar filters more rewarding,” he said. turnaround on its eclipse set to star in several special broadcasts on TV and online.
to capture the eclipse in its “There is much to see: stars documentary premiering Associated Press
partial phases, along with during the daytime, the mil- Monday. Senior executive Eclipse “: David Muir will — “Solar Eclipse: Through
custom modifications that lion-degree solar corona, producer Paula S. Apsell anchor ABC’s two hours of the Eyes of NASA “: NASA
can photograph the co- and seeing the sun blacked said “Eclipse Over Ameri- live coverage, with corre- will offer hours of coverage
rona and light wavelengths out during the daytime. ca,” which delves into why spondents reporting from online and on NASA Tele-
that are invisible to the hu- “I have been waiting al- eclipses occur and what viewing parties across the vision beginning at noon
man eye, allowing scientists most 40 years for this scientists can learn from country. NBC also plans live Eastern. It plans livestream-
to view and study the sun’s eclipse, and although I will them, will incorporate im- coverage, with Lester Holt ing of the eclipse beginning
temperature and compo- be operating 14 cameras ages of the event from hosting special reports at at 1 p.m. EDT with images
sition in a way only pos- during totality, I will certain- across the country shot 1 and 2 p.m. EDT featuring from satellites, research
sible during a total eclipse, ly take a moment to gaze earlier that day with Dan- correspondents reporting aircraft, high-altitude bal-
he said. Dantowitz, who is at the eclipse the same towitz’s high-tech cameras. from Oregon, Illinois, Wyo- loons and specially modi-
based at Dexter Southfield way people have done for — “Great American Eclipse ming and South Carolina. fied telescopes.
School in Brookline, Massa- thousands of years: with “: The Science Channel will Shepard Smith will break — “The Total Solar Eclipse”:
chusetts, is lending his ex- wonder.” broadcast its live coverage into typical broadcasting The Weather Channel is
pertise to NOVA’s “Eclipse For those not in the 14 states from Madras, Oregon, from on Fox News Channel from kicking off its live coverage
Over America,” airing at comprising the eclipse’s noon to 4 p.m. EDT, with noon to 4 p.m. EDT to up- at 6 a.m. EDT and continu-
9 p.m. EDT Monday on “path of totality,” here’s a commentary from educa- date viewers on the eclipse ing throughout the day
PBS. That hourlong special, look at some of the viewing tors and astronomers from and introduce footage with dispatches from seven
which will incorporate his opportunities online and on the Lowell Observatory. from NASA and observato- locations along the “path
images, is among extensive TV: — “Eclipse of the Cen- — “The Great American ries around the country. of totality.”q

Apple CEO Tim Cook makes

$2 million pledge to fight hate

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — white nationalists and pro-
Apple is donating $2 mil- testers opposing them.
lion to two human rights Cook believes equating
groups as part of CEO Tim the two “runs counter to
Cook’s pledge to help lead our ideals as Americans,”
the fight against the hate making him the latest
that fueled the violence in prominent CEO to distance
Virginia during a white-na- himself from Trump.
tionalist rally last weekend. Apple is giving $1 million
Cook made the commit- apiece to Southern Poverty
ment late Wednesday in an Law Center and the Anti-
internal memo obtained by Defamation League. It will
The Associated Press. also match employee do-
Cook also says he strongly nations to those two groups
disagrees with President and other human rights or-
Donald Trump’s compari- ganizations on a two-for- In this Monday, June 5, 2017, file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an announcement of
new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif.
son between the actions of one basis.q Associated Press