Last-minute eclipse guide: It maxes today at 10:21 a.m.

EVERETT — As you know, we will experience a partial eclipse of the sun Monday morning in Snohomish County. In Everett, we’ll see 92 percent of totality. It won’t be quite like midnight, as it will along the 70-mile-wide path of totality, but it’s going to be pretty dark here for a little while.

The moon begins to pass in front of the sun at 9:09 a.m. The eclipse here will reach its greatest point at 10:21 a.m. It ends at 11:39 a.m.

The forecast is for clear skies, but there could be areas of patchy fog in the morning. Let’s hope it burns off by the time of the eclipse.

Here’s a video simulation of what we’ll see in Everett.

The eclipse will make its way across America from west to east. If you are working or are indoors, treat yourself to a one-hour field trip outside around, say, 9:45 a.m. After the eclipse ends here, you can return to your desk and watch TV for a couple more hours as it passes over the rest of the country. Places like Oregon have been mobbed, and it will be fun to see how all those people are experiencing the eclipse in the path of totality.

If you have more than an hour to spare, Sno-Isle Libraries plans special eclipse events Monday at the Edmonds, Snohomish and Camano Island branches. (They had also been distributing special, approved eclipse viewing glasses, but they are mostly gone.)

National media will be all over this, with live coverage on the major networks and the news and science channels. NASA-TV will livestream on the web from locations across the country as well as airplanes, balloons and telescopes.

The NASA website has pretty much everything you need to know about the eclipse, including ways to make pinhole cameras and other information to ensure safe viewing.

Speaking of safety, NASA says:

The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as eclipse glasses or handheld solar viewers. Homemade filters or ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe for looking at the sun. In the 70-mile-wide swath of the country that will experience a total eclipse, it is safe to look at the total eclipse with your naked eyes only during the brief period of totality, which will last about two minutes, depending on your location.

An alternative method for safe viewing of the partially eclipsed sun is with a pinhole projector [https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/2d3d-printable-pinhole-projectors]. With this method, sunlight streams through a small hole – such as a pencil hole in a piece of paper, or even the space between your fingers – onto a makeshift screen, such as a piece of paper or the ground. It’s important to watch the screen, not the sun.

It’s probably too late to get glasses, so a quick pinhole viewer is probably the way to go.

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