The Great American Eclipse
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I have to thank Aimee for that. She saw something to help block the peripheral light around the glasses for kids and made that with the kids out of a heavy duty paper plates.
Now I got the glasses on Amazon a while back, thought I was being prepared, then an email a few days before the eclipse saying they can't certify them and not to use them. By then a lot of glasses were recalled and prices for remaining certified NASA approved ones were very high.
Local library was out and the day of they had people lined up at 8:00 am and they did not open until 9:30, for only 20 pairs.
So I did a lot of reading online. The glasses I had were dark enough, tested them on my iPhone LED, looked at the full sun, etc, but no way to know about UV light. So under their home made set up they have on UV and polarized sun glasses. I did the same and it workes better, not too dark, and the polarization gave a sharper image.
BTW they got all excited, came out, looked up saw it, thought it was cool, when back in after a minute to go back watch cartoons. So not like they stared at it for 30 mins. More or less like 30 seconds in total.
Also for a few minutes mother nature gave a nice cloud filter as you can see in that one photo.
Now I got the glasses on Amazon a while back, thought I was being prepared, then an email a few days before the eclipse saying they can't certify them and not to use them. By then a lot of glasses were recalled and prices for remaining certified NASA approved ones were very high.
Local library was out and the day of they had people lined up at 8:00 am and they did not open until 9:30, for only 20 pairs.
So I did a lot of reading online. The glasses I had were dark enough, tested them on my iPhone LED, looked at the full sun, etc, but no way to know about UV light. So under their home made set up they have on UV and polarized sun glasses. I did the same and it workes better, not too dark, and the polarization gave a sharper image.
BTW they got all excited, came out, looked up saw it, thought it was cool, when back in after a minute to go back watch cartoons. So not like they stared at it for 30 mins. More or less like 30 seconds in total.
Also for a few minutes mother nature gave a nice cloud filter as you can see in that one photo.
