Don’t watch the eclipse with your naked eye.
Alex Potess, left, and Kate Howell view the 2017 partial eclipse of the sun from Butler Park in downtown Austin.
Judith Meyer, the education and outreach senior program coordinator at the McDonald Observatory in West Texas, joined the Texas Standard to discuss what to expect this weekend.Texas Standard: What is the annular eclipse exactly, and how does it differ from the upcoming total solar eclipse? A couple of ways. The annular eclipse happens when the moon, on its orbit around the Earth, is at a farther point from the Earth than average. And so it doesn’t completely cover up the disk of the sun.
Now, how are you going to watch it? Since you’re at the observatory are you going to be looking through that great big telescope? Are you going to go outside? If you have a pair of eclipse glasses or glasses that claim to be safe to look at the sun, the first thing you would want to do is check them and make sure there aren’t any pinholes in them.
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