{"id":680,"date":"2012-05-18T17:33:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2012-05-18T17:41:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T00:41:49","slug":"ready-for-the-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/ready-for-the-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for the solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cassidy\/7224155928\/\" title=\"Ready for the solar eclipse\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7086\/7224155928_a9fa884e81.jpg\" alt=\"Ready for the solar eclipse by otherthings\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"margin: 0;\"><\/p>\n<p>Getting ready for the solar eclipse&#8230; I bought some 0.2mm silver mylar, which is practically opaque, but lets a tiny bit of sunlight through (like, about 1\/160,000th by my seat-of-the-pants estimate). One layer of it makes the sun seem about as bright as the moon. Two layers, and you can&#8217;t even see the sun at all.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>THIS MAY NOT ACTUALLY BE SAFE AT ALL.<\/i><\/b> I don&#8217;t honestly know, because I have no way of knowing how much UV light gets through this stuff. But I did use mylar to look at the last solar eclipse several years ago, and I haven&#8217;t gone blind yet, so there&#8217;s anecdotal evidence at least.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good article explaining <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dearastronomer.com\/2012\/05\/18\/annular-solar-eclipse-of-2012\/\">when and where you can see the eclipse<\/a>. If you&#8217;re in the San Francisco Bay Area, it should start on Sunday afternoon (May 20th) around 5:30pm, and reach maximum occlusion (about 90%) by 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting ready for the solar eclipse&#8230; I bought some 0.2mm silver mylar, which is practically opaque, but lets a tiny bit of sunlight through (like, about 1\/160,000th by my seat-of-the-pants estimate). One layer of it makes the sun seem about as bright as the moon. Two layers, and you can&#8217;t even see the sun at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/ready-for-the-solar-eclipse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready for the solar eclipse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[103,100,101,102,99],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fun","tag-diy","tag-eclipse","tag-glasses","tag-mylar","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}