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              Wear Solar Specs or Make a Viewer to Safely Watch Eclipse





            In this Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 photo, Colton Hammer tries out his new eclipse glasses he just bought from the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City in preparation for
            the Aug. 21 eclipse. Eye doctors urge strict adult supervision for eclipse watchers under 16 years old.
                                                                                                                    (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP)
            By MARCIA DUNN               There should be absolutely  Totality means 100 percent  partial eclipse — you need  grab  a  kitchen  colander
            AP Aerospace Writer          no peeking without eclipse  of the sun is covered. That  to  keep  those  solar  specs  — that casts images of the
            CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)  glasses  or  other  certified  will occur only along a nar-  on the whole time.          eclipsed sun onto a screen
            — Solar glasses are a must  filters  except  during  the  row strip stretching from Or-  There  are  other  options  if  at least 3 feet away.
            for  safe  viewing  of  Mon-  two  minutes  or  so  when  egon, through the Midwest-   you  don’t  have  eclipse  What  can  happen  when
            day’s  total  solar  eclipse,  the moon completely blots  ern  plains,  down  to  South  glasses.  You  can  look  indi-  you look directly at the sun?
            the first to span coast to U.S.  out the sun, called totality.  Carolina. The rest of the U.S.  rectly  with  a  pinhole  pro-  You’re  essentially  cooking
            coast in 99 years.           That’s the only time it’s safe  gets  a  partial  eclipse  that  jector  that  you  can  make  your  retina,  the  delicate,
            And  parents  beware:  Eye  to view the eclipse without  extends  into  Canada  and  yourself.  NASA  has  a  num-  light-sensitive  tissue  deep
            doctors urge strict adult su-  protection. When totality is  to the top of South America  ber  of  designs  on  its  web-  inside the eyeball.
            pervision for eclipse watch-  ending, then it’s time to put  and the Caribbean.        site,  including  one  made
            ers under 16 years old.      them back on.                Wherever  there’s  only  a  with  a  cereal  box  .  Or       Continued on Page 5
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