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27 minutes ago, Jack from Ohio said:

Any electric welding helmet will be safe.

I did research on this back in junior high school in the early 70's (if memory serves) to make sure of it.  Hard to do, back in the days of libraries only!  I found out the limitations of the local branch very quickly and had to go to the main branch "downtown" to find out.  The main branch had more than two rooms of books...

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We are in the .92 magnitude for the eclipse this time.  My mother and brother had already scheduled vacation for that week, and will be in the .99 band.  If my niece goes back to college by then (and I think she plans to) she will be in the 100% range.  We all have our glasses, and my husband is talking about dragging out his telescope to use the attachment on that.  I really doubt any work gets done that afternoon here, but that is okay.  The last solar eclipse I remember is from 1979 (I think).

 

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