Cumberland County libraries running low on solar eclipse glasses

Additionally, Amazon has already removed certain pages that sell suspected fake glasses.

There’s just a few days left if you’d like to go on an eclipse adventure with Great Rides Fargo. This standard requires glasses and viewers to be thousands of times darker than typical sunglasses.

If eclipse eye wear or other viewers are out of reach, alternatives for safe viewing of the partially eclipsed sun are pinhole or other projection methods.

Anyone who plans to view the eclipse with just their eyes must obtain a pair of “eclipse glasses” or handheld solar viewers, which are regulated by an global safety standard. The closest our country has come to an eclipse like the one it will experience on August 21 was the very year we declared our independence: 1776. Not all of the retail locations may carry eclipse glasses or may have them in stock, so Fienberg recommends calling the nearest store to avoid making an unnecessary trip.

Get advice for using a solar filter.

While total solar eclipses are rare events, this one is even rarer because it will cross North America and be highlighted by an approximate 61 mile wide path of totality from one side of the country to the other. What better time to get your palm read or future foretold than while the sun is blotted out by the moon’s shadow?

“With millions of people within a three-hour driving distance of this eclipse, this is going to be the most observed eclipse in history”, said Siegfried Jachmann, a past president of the Salt Lake Astronomical Society. “So looking directly into the sun can cause serious eye damage and potentially blindness”, said Robert Edgcom, community and information specialist with the Volusia County School District.

News 13’s Meteorologist Justin Roth takes a look at the history of eclipses and how scientist use them to make wonderful breakthrough studies.

Hold the plain sheet of paper at arm’s length to see a reflection of the eclipse.

Since 1970, there have been 104 solar eclipses, 31 of which were total.

University of Washington professor and meteorologist Cliff Mass, on his latest weather blog post Tuesday, says, “The best weather technology we have suggests a favorable situation for viewing the total eclipse in the Willamette Valley and in eastern OR”.

But the approximately two minutes of so-called “totality” will only be visible from within a 70-mile-wide corridor that stretches from OR to SC.

The John Graham Library in Newville had two pairs left around 1 p.m. Tuesday, and all other libraries in the county system did not have any glasses available. “If we don’t list a supplier, that doesn’t mean their products are unsafe – only that we have no knowledge of them or that we haven’t convinced ourselves they are safe”, says AAS.