Solar eclipse. Starts Tuesday at 12:47 p.m. when the Moon’s disk moves in front of the edge of the Sun. Ends at 3:17. Maximum eclipse at 2:04 p.m. when the Sun to be eclipsed 80% by the Moon.
Prof has telescopes equipped with solar filters
WINONA, Minn. – Cloud cover or not, geoscience professor Jennifer Anderson at Winona State University plans a solar eclipse party. Anderson has set up two observing stations – one at the quadrangle gazebo, the other nearby outside the Stark sciences building. It’s free. At 12:30 p.m. For the public, Anderson has telescopes set up with solar filters. Solar eclipse glasses will be available at the gazebo, but Anderson is not sure she will have enough. It depends on the turnout. She recommends bringing your viewing device, which you can make in-site e with two pieces of cardstock and a thumb tack. How to details. Important, she says: Don’t look directly at the eclipse without eye protection. Anderson said forecasts are for clouds, perhaps rain. Whatever, she said, the party will go on, albeit inside Stark Hall atrium.
Anderson. Astrophysics her thing.
Safe viewing
To watch the eclipse safely, make a pinhole projector with two pieces of 3×5 cardstock. Poke a tiny hole in one card with a thumb tack. Hold the card with the pinhole at chest level and the blank card six inches below it — so sunlight passes through the pinhole and lands on the lower card. Your eyes will be be ever grateful.