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How to Get Ready for Monday's Solar Eclipse

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Monday morning’s solar eclipse will not be a total eclipse when viewed in the Four Corners area, but more than 80 percent of the sun will be blotted out at the event’s peak, around 11:40 a.m. It is not safe to look at the eclipse directly. Special glasses – not just sunglasses – are required, or you can make a pinhole viewer. Eclipse watching events have been scheduled at the Anasazi Heritage Center near Dolores, the Mancos Public Library, the Powerhouse Science Center in Durango, the Durango Public Library, and San Juan College in Farmington.

Gail Binkly is a career journalist who has worked for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Cortez Journal, and was the editor of the Four Corners Free Press, based in Cortez.
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