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Everything you need to know about solar viewing:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/solar-observing/ci/33818/N/3583558376/sba
You do want some magnification while looking at the eclipse. Go out tonight and look at the moon-- that's exactly how big the sun will look, so you might want to make it look bigger. Here's an inexpensive solution:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1258818-REG/lunt_solar_systems_mini_sunocular_blue_6x30_white_light_mini_sunocular.html
If you don't want to go for that, here's 5 certified viewing glasses for 12 bucks:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1353642-REG/lunt_solar_systems_lseglasses5_solar_eclipse_viewing_glasses.html
For more money, but for excellent viewing of the sun with or without an eclipse, try
http://camera-concepts.shoplightspeed.com/telescopes/solar-telescopes/
The cause and effect of the Suns activity right here on Earth!
You will learn to see the fine feather-like details of the faintest prominence, the bright birth of a solar flare, its rapid growth of energy, and its departure from the Suns surface into space.
You will see caterpillar/worm-like structures (filaments) snaking across the Suns surface, spirals of gas activity spewing and churning from active regions above sunspots, and if you are lucky, the violent eruption of an X-class flare from the surface. This amazing event, which is highly energetic, fast evolving, huge in size, really does provide the full appreciation of just how small we humans really are.
The solar features you are looking at can last hours and even days. As the Earth rotates around the Sun, the features will appear to move across the Suns surface. This allows the observer to see the details in various angles and positions, both off the edge of the Sun, and in cooler contrast to the Suns bright and hotter surface.
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neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)I've been buying photo supplies from them since the 1990s.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)I'd like to go someday.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)The place is a trip.
You buys your stuff
These green buckets are your shopping cart following you to
Checkout
And pickup
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)They keep that in a cooler at the film desk.
What I thought interesting: if you're a B&H online or mail order shopper, your purchase records are visible at their in-store POS system.