Taking pictures of the sun is dangerous for your eyes if you are trying to compose your picture by looking through the camera's optical viewfinder, and also potentially bad for your camera, which can get its sensor burned if it is pointed directly at the sun excessively. Now, if you also want to take photographs of the sun during the eclipse, you have more shopping to do. These don't need to be very sophisticated, you can buy cheap cardboard glasses on Amazon, for example. So how you do view the eclipse if you cannot look at it? There are special glasses that you can use that have strong filters that will protect your eyes during all the partial stages, before and after the eclipse gets to the total phase. If you are thinking you'll use sunglasses, forget it, those are not strong enough to protect your eyes against the sun. If you are in the totality band, you can only look at the sun with the naked eye during the minute or so that the eclipse is total, which means that the sun is fully covered by the moon. If you are in a region that is outside of the totality path, the sun will never be fully covered by the moon, so you cannot look at the eclipse directly at any time. I'm sure you know that looking directly at the sun is bad for your eyes. Assuming the highways that day are not completely blocked by thousands (millions?) of people trying to get to the totality band, I plan to make the trip and experience my first and possibly only eclipse in the best possible way. I need to drive about 30 miles South to get to an area from where the eclipse will be total. I am located in Portland, Oregon, which is not in the totality path, but very close. If you live anywhere in the US, Canada or Mexico, the eclipse will be visible to you! If you want to know how the eclipse will look from your location, find yourself up in this nice interactive map. As you move away from this band, the more the moon will "miss" the sun and cover it only partially. All the places covered by that band will see a total solar eclipse. The map at the top of this article shows a band that runs through the continental United States from North West to South East. According to this analysis, a total solar eclipse is visible from a given location once every four or five centuries, so this might be the only chance in your life to see one! Best Spots to View the Eclipse While total solar eclipses happen fairly often, the chances of one being visible from your location are quite rare. If the alignment is perfect, you have a total solar eclipse, which causes the Earth to go mostly dark while the sun looks like a thin ring of light: Watching the eclipse from Earth, the sun is obscured by the black silhouette of the moon. When the three bodies are in a direct line, the moon casts a shadow on the Earth's surface. You probably know this, but just in case, an eclipse occurs when the moon happens to pass in between the Earth and the Sun. In this short article, I want to give you some ideas on how to prepare to view and photograph the eclipse in a way that is safe for you and your camera.
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