Royal Observatory astronomer reveals what to look for in solar eclipse glasses

I was born in 1999, so 12 August is my first chance to see a solar eclipse of this scale. Simply put, I don’t want to mess this up. And so, I’ve turned to an expert, Dr Greg Brown, astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, for some tips, tricks and advice on how to make this eclipse as easy, stress-free and memorable for myself as possible. Here’s what he told me.

To be totally frank, I was starting from a place of little-to-no knowledge on what precisely an eclipse is and how to watch one, having not really considered the…

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