Like a gazillion other folks I’m looking forward to the upcoming solar eclipse. First in Hamilton since 1925. We won’t be in the path of another full solar eclipse locally until October 26, 2144!

Plenty of community outreach thanks in large measure to McMaster University and its Department of Physics & Astronomy. They are distributing proper viewing glasses throughout the region. While you can take them off for the 1 minute 50 seconds of totality we will experience locally you’ll need to wear them before & after that brief period of total darkness.

Here are a few links that should cover most everything eclipse for you:

McMaster University public eclipse lectures here.

(Last week I attended one of these public lectures offered by McMaster. The talk was about 45 minutes with Q & A afterwards.)

McMaster Planetarium eclipse info here.

Hamilton Public Library eclipse info here.

Canada Space Agency eclipse info here.