Before August 21:
- Get glasses [NASA approved brands: American Paper Optics, Baader Planetarium (AstroSolar Silver/Gold film only), Rainbow Symphony, Thousand Oaks Optical, TSE 17/
- Go to pre-party at our local library (see if yours has one!)
- Read fact sheets https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/downloadables
- Watch this cool video
- Read Psalm 19 and 139
- make or collect viewers
- some cereal box instructions: http://eclipse.illinois.edu/pinhole.html, http://hilaroad.com/camp/projects/eclipse_viewer/eclipse_viewer.htm]
- envelope with mirror in it:
- collander full of holes!
- make a card with a 3mm hole punch in center
On August 21:
- Look up your location to find the best times for viewing the eclipse (scroll down to the bottom of the page for the link to the map): http://www.eclipse2017.org/xavier_redirect.htm
- Use various viewers to watch sun from below
- Use glasses to look at sky
- Watch for stages:
- C1 (moment when sun and moon touch)
- an hour or so later C2 (moment when moon covers sun -totality)
- only 2 minutes later, C3 (moment when sun pokes out from behind moon again)
- an hour or so later C4 (when sun and moon stop touching)
- Watch for partial phase phenomena between C1 and C2, and between C3 and C4:
- temperature and lighting changes
- animal reactions
- shadow bands
- Diamond Ring, just before C2, and after C3
- Bailey's Beads, bumpy edge of the moon makes dots of light, just after Diamond ring before C2, and after C3
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