Spectators cautioned for May 30 solar eclipse viewing
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One of natura't most dramatic
?vents, a solar eclipse, occurs on
Wednesday, May 30th. According to
the National Society to Prevent
Blindness-North - Carolina Affiliate,
the safest ways to watch this late
morning event are by indirect
viewing, on television, or at a
professionally sponsored eclipse
watch.
"Viewing the eclipse directly cu
be dangerous," says Harold
Megredy, Eye Safety Chairman of
the North Carolina AfBl ate. "When
you look at the tun, your eye'i lens
focuses the intense light on the
retina-that delicate layer of cells at
the back of the eye that sends visual
images to the brain.
"The retina does not feel pain. You
don't know it is being burned. But it
can be. at the very center of your
field of vision and nothing can be
done about it!"
Unlike the total eclipse of 1919, this
May's eclipse will be annular. Even
though the moon will cross over the
sun, an outer ring or annul us of the
SB A disaster program changed
The Small Business
Administration's disaster loan
program has been changed by
federal legislation recently signed
Into law by President Reagan. The
changes are as follows :
Disaster loans now carry an
interest rate of eight percent per
year for renters, homeowners and
businesses who can get credit
elsewhere. The rate is four percent
for those unable to get credit
elsewhere.
The limits for homeowners have
doubled, to $100,000 for real property,
and $20,000 (or personal property.
The maximum combined loan is
$120,000.
For businesses, disaster loans are
for 100 percent of the uninsured loss
up to $500,000.
The new rates and limits apply to
the tornado disaster assistance
program being carried out now in
North Carolina.
Media inquiries may be referred to
Jim Jennings, Public Affairs Office
for the Small Business
Administration in Washington. The
number is 202-653-6822.
aun'i atmosphere will be visible at >11
timer
The Aatrooomical League reports
that the eclipse will erosa directly
through the southeastern United
States, and will be in partial view
throughout the rest of the continental
U. S. , Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
At about 11:00 a.m., the moon's
shadow will race northeastward at
1,400 miles per hour, beginning in
Louisiana, crossing Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia, the Carolines and
Virginia, and reach the Maryland
shore less than one hour later.
To view the eclipse indirectly, the
Society recommends the following:
1. Get two sheets of white
cardboard.
2. Make a pinhole in the center of
one of them.
3. Stand with tun at your back.
4. With one sheet at cardboard in
each hand, hold the iheet with the
pinhole ao that the sun shines through
the hole onto the other sheet.
9. Adjust the sheets to focus the
light. (You can change the sise of the
image by changing the distance
between the sheets.)
6. Now, by looking at the bottom
sheet, you can see an exact image of
the sun and its eclipse. As the moon
slowly crosses in front of the sun, you
can see it all happen!
The Society cautions that people
using this method should not look at
the eclipse through the pinhole.
Similarity, photographers shooting
this event are cautioned not to look at
the sun through their camera
viewfinder. ? y- '
The Society has printed
Instructions on safe eclipse viewing.
To receive a tree copy, write:
National 6ociety 'to Prevent
Blindness-North Carolina Affiliate,
1033 Wade Ave., Suite 308, Raleigh.
NC 27805 (119)131-2420. All request!
should be accompanied by a self
addressed, stamped, business-sited
envelope.
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For Information about
professionally sponsored eclipse
watches, cootact local planetariums
or science museums.
Established in 1908, the Nstionsl
Society to Prevent Blindness is the
oldest voluntary health agency
nationally engaged in preventing
blindness through a comprehensive
program of community services,
public and professional education
and research.
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