How to make solar eclipse glasses, cereal box viewers and pinhole cameras to watch the 2024 show safely
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If you can't get your hands on a pair of solar eclipse glasses, experts say there are still ways to enjoy the event safely.
There are also unsafe alternatives, including wearing your normal sunglasses — or even stacking two or three.
"There's no amount of sunglasses that people can put on that will make up for the filtering that the ISO standard filters and the eclipse glasses provide," said Dr. Jason P. Brinton, an ophthalmologist and medical director at Brinton Vision in St. Louis.
After launching more than 100 small payloads from California on Tuesday and two commercial moon landers from Florida early Wednesday, both atop Falcon 9 rockets, SpaceX readied a huge Super Heavy-Starship for a ground-shaking launch from the Texas Gulf Coast to kick off the program's seventh test flight.