![]() ![]() Take one sheet of paper or cardboard and punch a hole in it. The easiest way to watch is to build a pinhole projector. ![]() You can watch through a pair of ISO-compliant solar filter/solar eclipse glasses - although you must remember not to watch through a camera or through binoculars and telescopes even while wearing the glasses. Solar filters must always be placed in front of optical devices while looking at the sun. Luckily, there are still a number of ways to see the event safely. It is extremely dangerous to look directly at the sun - including during an eclipse - as you can seriously hurt your eyes or even go blind. “We won’t get a better eclipse until 2025, although there is a smaller one actually happening late next year.” Safe watching “Then the moon will move slowly off the face of the sun and it is all over by 12:30. “So, we think it might get noticeably cooler and, if it is a lovely clear blue sky, you might notice that the day doesn’t look as bright as it normally should because you have only got two-thirds of the sunlight left. “A few minutes after 11am, about 45% of the sun’s diameter - that equates to about a third of the whole area of the sun - will be covered by the moon,” he said. On Newstalk Breakfast this morning, Asstronly Ireland Editor David Moore described what to expect. Image: Nie Yunpeng/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images A partial solar eclipse in Ahmadi Governorate, Kuwait, 26-12-2019.
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