McMaster to offer solar glasses for April eclipse with ideal sight lines in Hamilton-Niagara area
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The university's department of physics and astronomy is partnering with local libraries and schools prior to the April 8 event to hand out solar eclipse safe-viewing glasses.
Ahead of a rare celestial event in which viewing angles will be ideal across parts of eastern Canada, McMaster University is partnering with local libraries and schools to make solar eclipse safe-viewing glasses available.
The total solar eclipse will darken skies in several Ontario cities and towns on April 8, with some of the best sight lines in Niagara Falls and Fort Erie, bringing complete darkness for a few minutes.
The department of physics and astronomy specs, made up of aluminized polyester, will be available on select dates in Hamilton, Haldimand County, Burlington, Six Nations, Brantford and Norfolk between Feb. 22 and March 4.
McMaster professor and university scholar Laura Parker says about a half-million of the glasses have been purchased and Hamilton will be in a good position when the eclipse arrives with maximum effect around 3:18 p.m.
She reveals that neighbouring cities like London and Kitchener and Toronto won’t get a ‘total’ solar eclipse thus not the full effect Hamilton and Niagara will see.
“It just will not completely block it, so you’ll always have at least a little bit of the sun that is visible to you,” Parker said.
“Whereas here in Hamilton, we will have this very brief period where the sun’s completely blocked and on either side of that.”
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