I’m going to be in Nebraska. Any suggestions that don’t involve trees?
Anything with holes in it - a colander, a security door screen, a street sign with buckshot holes in it…
ETA: here’s cool example.
I emailed the place in London that supplied my glasses to Amazon to see if there was an actual concern or Amazon was just covering their very deep legal pockets. They replied that they were tested and previously well and safely used in the past, and I could put them on and look at the sun all day and be just fine. And they were pretty pissed at Amazon. They don’t have the sooperdooper official magic certified logo on them, but it’s not like the counterfeiter suppliers can’t just print any damned logo they want on their evil, blinding glasses. Come to think of it, that’s a good way for our many enemies to bring down 'Merka. Blind the populace! Through Amazon! How very diabolical.
Does that only happen during totality, or is 90% enough?
90% will work
Punch holes in a piece of paper or cardboard.
ETA: beowulff already got it. A colander is a good idea.
FFS, there are many trees in Nebraska.it’s where Arbor Day eas founded.
In fact, the shadow effect works with everything but totality, since a totally-eclipsed Sun will cast no shadows.
Any percentage will work; it just won’t be as cool as the photo. In fact, *no *eclipse works, too – only the round spots are every-day dull.
They established a tree planting holiday because they didn’t have trees. From my limited observation it hasn’tworked that well.
I’ll admit that it’s all relative. Compared to eastern Montana, for instance, Nebraska is like the Amazon rainforest.
I’ll be sure to pack my colander.
If you want via live stream instead:
The NASA livestream is at:
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-live-stream
All I can say was AWESOME. We got 90 seconds on totality in Shaniko, Central Oregon. No issue with traffic getting in or getting out. Shaniko has a population of 300 and there were at best a couple thousand visitors. My plan to go from Seattle through central Washington and Oregon worked, my kids took the solar glasses seriously, and a great time was had by all.
Getting from Eugene OR to Corvallis OR was easy. We drove up 99W at 3am, came back down Peoria Road around 11am. Traffic was nonexistent on the way up, heavy in some places on the way back but nothing worse than you normally see at the end of a football game. The trip from Corvallis to Eugene usually takes 55 minutes. On Monday it took 75 minutes. meh.
I-5 was another story. I heard that it was terrible over there and Google Maps was showing red red red, from Eugene up to Portland, so we stayed away.