Although we won’t be seeing a total eclipse of the sun in Saskatchewan, we will be witnessing a partial eclipse, and you still need special ISO certified glasses or a solar filter on your telescope to do so.
The president of the Saskatoon Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada warns that if you look at the sun without these precautions you can permanently damage your eyes.
Brent Burlingham says the path where it’s a total eclipse is from Mazatlan across Texas and the eastern U.S. and up through eastern Canada.
He describes the partial solar eclipse that we will see will be like a chunk taken out of the sun, as if Cookie Monster took a bite out of it.
It’s estimated the moon will cover about 35 per cent of the sun from our vantage point.
The moon will begin to cover the sun around noon and then will be at its maximum around 1 p.m.
If you are in Saskatoon, you can view it with the experts with telescopes available that have special solar filters on the USask campus at the observatory.
If not, they also have a livestream.