Will you be watching the solar eclipse?
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (43081)
Staten Island, New York
April 8, 2024 1:10pm CST
Today is the solar eclipse. Hubby tried to get those special glasses but everywhere he went they were either out of them or never had them in the first place.
He said you can’t look at it without those glasses or it can ruin your eyesight. Even if you put on sunglasses it is not good. I guess I will not be watching it. But what if I glance at it through my window, if it will even be visible?
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@sabtraversa (12996)
• Italy
8 Apr
You might notice the sky getting darker. I can only watch it on a screen, here the sun went down before the moon could hug it. 
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
8 Apr
Here in NYC, we will not see the entire thing. Maybe I can find a live broadcast of it online somewhere.
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@LadyDuck (458867)
• Switzerland
9 Apr
@lovebuglena You can only see the day turn into night for a while.
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
I tried that but didn’t really see anything that would indicate a solar eclipse.
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
The live feed of it was cool to see.
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@RebeccasFarm (86838)
• United States
8 Apr
Yes it will be visible..it was here..I mean the yellowish tint, haze all around...it was cool. I did not look up of course. I had my sun hat on.
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
Wish I had seen it with my own eyes but the live feed on YouTube was the next best thing.
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@RebeccasFarm (86838)
• United States
9 Apr
@lovebuglena Oh yes you had the live feed..
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@JESSY3236 (18957)
• United States
9 Apr
My mother made me a cereal box viewer. We only had 80% and we had cloud cover. But I did get to see some of it once I got hang of the viewer.
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
10 Apr
That’s nice that the cereal box thing worked.
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@JudyEv (326098)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Apr
You should notice everything getting darker even if you can't look at the sun. At school, we put our backs to the sun, held our blazes open and got crescent shapes on the ground through the buttonholes. Not sure if it was really the eclipse shape we were seeing. 
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
Weird but I didn’t see anything getting darker from my window.
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@LeaPea2417 (36486)
• Toccoa, Georgia
8 Apr
Yes, I found an old pair of eclipse glasses that I forgot I had. So far at the moment, it is cool to see.
@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
8 Apr
I read online just now that it is not good to wear old glasses.
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
8 Apr
@LeaPea2417 I guess because there may be tears in them.
@just4him (306854)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
9 Apr
I tried to do a DIY to see it because I didn't have the glasses, but it didn't work. So, I didn't see it either.
@just4him (306854)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
9 Apr
@lovebuglena I made a viewer out of a cereal box according to the instructions, but it didn't work for me.
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
10 Apr
@just4him wonder why it didn’t work.
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@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
What were you trying to do? I saw on the news a lady made a box and put it over her head. She didn’t make the actual box. She just did something to it to be able to look at the eclipse.
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@LindaOHio (156852)
• United States
9 Apr
I watched the extended coverage on the Weather Channel. They had people in the path of totality from Texas to the northeast. I didn't have any special glasses.
@lovebuglena (43081)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
I watched some live feeds on YouTube of it. Not the same thing but still nice to see.
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