How and where we can watch a solar obscure on Aug. 21

While we won’t get a sum solar obscure on Aug. 21 like a cousins to a south, we’ll still be treated to a beautiful  prejudiced one. But you’re going to wish to see it safely.

Looking during a object is always a bad idea, though during an eclipse, we tend to try to overcome a body’s response that tells us to demeanour divided from a splendid light. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s safe just because prejudiced of a object is blocked by a moon.

“Just since 80 per cent of a object is missing, 20 per cent of a object is there. You usually need a fragment of a per cent of a object to be manifest to beget eye damage,” astronomer Paul Delay told CBC News. 

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Ralph Chou, astronomer and editor-in-chief of a Canadian Journal of Optometry, agreed.

“Even if 0.5 per cent of a sun’s photosphere is visible, there is still a retinal jeopardy since a unprotected photosphere is still producing a same volume of light as always,” he told CBC News. “The usually disproportion is, a injure is a figure of a unprotected remaining crescent instead of a circle.”

The injure comes from prolonged bearing to a heated light from a sun, that can literally prepare a retinal hankie of your eye.

Canadians won’t be treated to a sum solar obscure on Aug. 21, though we’ll knowledge a prejudiced one. (Jon Olav Nesvold/NTB scanpix/Reuters)

There are protected ways to watch an eclipse, however.

You can squeeze solar obscure glasses. But be wary: feign solar obscure eyeglasses have been creation a rounds. So buy them from a scholarship store, museum, scholarship centre or devoted astronomy group. However, with expectation for a eventuality ramping up, many places might be sole out.

You can also use Number 14 welder’s eyeglasses (but usually those) that might be accessible during hardware stores.

Or, we can make a pinhole camera with cardboard, aluminum foil, fasten and a pin.

If you’d like to see a obscure by a special solar telescope, check out internal events nearby we for obscure parties.

Here are some events in vital Canadian cities. Elsewhere, demeanour for astronomical groups, scholarship organizations or events hosted by your city or city. 

All times in this list are local.

Victoria

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Victoria Centre, will be set adult on tip of Mount Tolmie from about 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

The University of Victoria will update its site about its event.

Vancouver

Science World will reason a observation eventuality from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., with sum obscure coverage from a U.S. in a Science Theatre from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Edmonton

Enjoy a eclipse at a Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Edmonton Centre’s Observatory during TELUS World of Science.

A lady watches a prejudiced solar obscure during a Planetarium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mar 9, 2016. (Olivia Harris/Reuters)

Calgary

TELUS Spark is throwing an obscure party. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., we can make your possess obscure viewer. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. suffer a protected demeanour by telescopes with solar filters. And there will even be a grill (for a price) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The University of Calgary will also have a solar obscure observation during a Rothney Astrophysical Observatory from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Regina

The obscure starts during 10:30 a.m. with 75 per cent of a sun covered by a moon during 11:46 a.m. At a Saskatchewan Science Centre, we can suffer a philharmonic with astronomers outward a Kramer IMAX Theatre. 

Saskatoon

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada will set up telescopes during London Drugs during Preston Avenue and 8 St. E.

Winnipeg

You’ll be means to see about 70 per cent of a object lonesome by a moon from the Manitoba Museum from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eclipse eyeglasses will be for sale, though we can also see a prejudiced obscure from solar telescopes.

Depending on where we are in Canada, we will be means to see adult to 90 per cent of a sum solar obscure on Aug. 21. (CBC News)

Toronto

You’ll have several opportunities to locate a eclipse, where 70 per cent of a object will be blocked out. 

The Ontario Science Centre has an all-day program. The obscure starts during 1:10 p.m. with limit coverage at 2:32 p.m.

York University will reason an eventuality from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. during Lions Stadium.

The University of Toronto will reason an obscure celebration during Princess Margaret Stadium during a CNE from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with giveaway obscure glasses. While there is no assign for admission to the event, attendees will need to compensate acknowledgment a CNE grounds.

A prejudiced obscure was manifest from Toronto in 2012. (Nicole Mortillaro)

Ottawa

Head over to a Canadian Aviation and Space Museum, where astronomers will have solar telescopes and object viewers available. An astrophysicist will be on palm to learn about a pretentious star.

Montreal

Enjoy a obscure at McGill University. There wil be solar telescopes set up, as good as giveaway obscure eyeglasses and a live tide of a sum eclipse. The eventuality runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

There will also be a observation celebration at Espace flow la vie where there’s giveaway acknowledgment to the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium. 

Saint John, N.B.

The Saint John Astronomy Club is providing dual locations to perspective a eclipse, that starts during 2:37 p.m. Head out to Irving Nature Park and a Rockwood Park Bark Park.

Whitehorse

You can see half a object blocked by a moon, by attending an eventuality hold by astronomers during a Shipyards Park.

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/how-where-solar-eclipse-canada-1.4231153?cmp=rss