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Wherever you are, do not look directly at the eclipsed sun or you can get a serious eye injury. Wear specially made protective glasses that can be bought online or create your own contraption by punching a small pinhole in a cardboard box. If you buy special eyewear, you can recycle it. Two weeks later, Venus will crawl across the face of the sun
-- a rare occurrence known as the "transit of Venus" that will also require viewers to take precaution. Veteran eclipse chaser Jay Pasachoff has traveled to remote corners of the globe to see the moon take a bite of the sun. This time, the Williams College astronomer will travel to New Mexico with his students to collect data. Sunday's event will be his 14th ring eclipse and 55th solar eclipse overall. So what does someone who has seen it all look forward to? Seeing "the symmetry of a ring of sunlight around the dark silhouette of the moon," Pasachoff said in an email. The next ring eclipse won't be visible in the U.S. for more than a decade
-- October 2023. ___ Online: U.S. viewing details: World viewing details:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/
OH/OHtables/OH2012-Tab03.pdf
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/
OH/OHtables/OH2012-Tab02.pdf
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