Astro Bob's Backyard Astronomy: "My kingdom for a colander!" and other ways of safe eclipse viewing
Credit Abel Pardo Lopez Tomorrow morning, it might be fun to get up around 4:15am, make yourself a cup of something nice and head down to Brighton Beach. From there, you'll have a pretty good vantage point to watch the annular (or ring) eclipse of the sun by the moon, right at sunrise. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you won't feel the damage to your eyes if you look unaided at the sun - but you will be so, so sorry you did. Speaking of Bob King, where will HE be? Flying right into the path of the event, as a matter of fact. He was invited by Sky & Telescope magazine to be part of ...