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NASA said Friday nan April 8 star eclipse will beryllium visible successful astir of North America. Along nan depicted "line of totality" millions of group from Texas to Maine will spot a full eclipse of nan Sun. Image courtesy of NASA
April 1 (UPI) -- NASA said Friday that erstwhile nan satellite passes successful beforehand of nan Sun April 8, astir of North America will beryllium capable to spot it successful immoderate degree.
Millions surviving on nan way of totality stretching from Texas to Maine will beryllium capable to spot a full eclipse. Outside of that band, group successful nan United States will person a chance to spot a partial star eclipse.
To thief nan nationalist witnesser and study much astir this event, NASA is inviting nan nationalist to participate pinch in-person events, opportunities to experience NASA science, and moreover aggregate ways to see it streaming online.
NASA's three-hour sum will see unrecorded views of nan eclipse from aggregate points crossed North America, appearances by NASA experts, astronauts aboard nan International Space Station, and an wrong look astatine NASA's eclipse subject experiments. There besides will beryllium watch parties passim nan country, NASA said.
Agency officials said a unrecorded broadcast besides will travel from nan agency's only halfway successful nan way of totality -- NASA's Glenn Research Center successful Ohio.
The agency besides is readying to coming a "no-commentary, telescope-only feed" of nan arena connected NASA Television's media transmission and YouTube, starting astatine 1 p.m.
The scope provender will incorporated views from locations including Cleveland, Dallas, Niagara Falls and more. One scope provender will travel from Mazatlán, Mexico.
NASA's broadcast will watercourse connected NASA+, connected NASA TV, and astatine nan agency's website.
NASA warned that it's not safe to position nan eclipse done a camera lens, scope aliases binoculars unless a special-purpose star select is attached. Looking astatine it without that select will "instantly origin severe oculus injury," according to NASA.
In bid to safely position a partial eclipse you person to person safe star viewing glasses sometimes called "eclipse glasses." NASA warns these are NOT regular sunglasses.
Safe star viewers are a 1000 times darker and should comply pinch nan ISO 12312-2 world standard.
"Do NOT look astatine nan Sun done a camera lens, telescope, binoculars, aliases immoderate different optical instrumentality while wearing eclipse glasses aliases utilizing a handheld star spectator - nan concentrated star rays will pain done nan select and origin superior oculus injury," Nasa said.
If group don't person eclipse glasses aliases a handheld star spectator they usage an indirect method that does not look straight astatine nan Sun.
" One measurement is to usage a pinhole projector, which has a mini opening (for example, a spread punched successful an scale card) and projects an image of nan Sun onto a adjacent surface. With nan Sun astatine your back, you tin past safely position nan projected image.,," NASA said. "Do NOT look astatine nan Sun done nan pinhole!"
NASA will person unrecorded sum of nan eclipse opening astatine 1 p.m. EDT streaming connected NASA+, NASA TV and nan agency's website.
It will characteristic unrecorded views of nan eclipse crossed America, views from nan abstraction position and typical appearances by NASA experts.
