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Parents of Wiggs MS students, On Monday August 21, there will be a solar eclipse. Your child will receive a pair of ISO 12312-2 solar eclipse glasses. Your child will receive safety rules and information on the care of viewing the solar eclipse. Your child will view the eclipse during class and at lunch. All students will be monitored by teachers during class time and administration during lunch. The glasses will be passed out at school. 6th grade students will receive their glasses during 4th period and the 7th and 8th grade students will receive their glasses during 5th period. Your child will return the glasses to the teacher they have after lunch. We would love for your child to participate, so they must follow all safety rules to do so. If you would like to review the safety rules they will be posted on the Wiggs web site and Facebook page.
Tip Number 1: Eye Safety NEVER look directly at the sun. It is not that the sun is more dangerous than usual to look at during the partial eclipse; it is just that the sun puts out more energy than your eye can handle. Only look at the sun, with your glasses on, for a 1 minute interval. GIVE YOUR EYES A BREAK!!! (Teachers please keep track of time for your students. Glasses on for one minute, glasses off for 2 minutes) •
Always inspect your solar filter before use; if scratched or damaged, discard it. Teachers please check for this. • Always supervise children using solar filters. • Stand still and cover your eyes with your eclipse glasses or solar viewer before looking up at the bright sun. After looking at the sun, turn away and remove your filter — do not remove it while looking at the sun. • Do not look at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun through an unfiltered camera, telescope, binoculars, or other optical device. • Similarly, do not look at the sun through a camera, a telescope, binoculars, or any other optical device while using your eclipse glasses or hand-held solar viewer — the concentrated solar rays will damage the filter and enter your eye(s), causing serious injury. • THIS IS WIGGS: Outside the path of totality, you must always use a safe solar filter to view the sun directly. • If you normally wear eyeglasses, keep them on. Put your eclipse glasses on over them, or hold your handheld viewer in front of them. Note: If your eclipse glasses or viewers are compliant with the ISO 12312-2 safety standard. Furthermore, if the filters aren't scratched, punctured, or torn, you may reuse them indefinitely. Some glasses/viewers are printed with warnings stating that you shouldn't look through them for more than 3 minutes at a time. Such warnings are outdated and do not apply to eclipse viewers compliant with the ISO 12312-2 standard adopted in 2015, which ours are and they’re new!!!!
Additional Safety Information An eclipse is a rare and striking phenomenon you won't want to miss, but you must carefully follow safety procedures. Don't let the requisite warnings scare you away from witnessing this
singular spectacle! You can experience the eclipse safely, but it is vital that you protect your eyes at all times with the proper solar filters. No matter what recommended technique you use, do not stare continuously at the sun. Take breaks and give your eyes a rest! Do not use sunglasses: they don't offer your eyes sufficient protection. The only acceptable glasses are safe viewers designed for looking at the sun and solar eclipses. IMPORTANT: When you bring your class back into the building, have them line up outside your door and collect the glasses. We don’t want them to put the glasses in their back pack, have the glasses bend or break, and try to use the glasses later. We will dispose of the glasses. DO NOT LET THE STUDENTS TAKE THE GLASSES.
