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Spectrum SportsNet LA Hosts
Summer Skills Baseball Clinic
Last week, Spectrum SportsNet LA hosted boys and girls from local South Bay communities, in partnership with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, for a summer skills
baseball clinic at Inglewood’s Darby Park led by SportsNet LA analysts and former Dodgers Nomar Garciaparra and Jerry Hairston, Jr, analyst and former Dodgers executive Ned Colletti and SportsNet LA
studio host John Hartung. Garciaparra, Hairston, Colletti and Hartung instructed the kids on the basic fundamentals of the game, including hitting, throwing, base-running and infielding. Photo Provided
by Charter Communications
Iffy Weather Expected for
Monday’s Solar Eclipse
By Rob McCarthy
South Bay residents should get the first
peek of a solar eclipse that hasn’t been seen
in North America in nearly a century, though
they may need to head inland to catch it. The
National Weather Service has forecast partly
sunny skies and patchy fog along the coast for
The Great American Eclipse of 2017, which
starts at 9 a.m. Monday and will last about
three hours. Solar eclipses aren’t rare. However,
this celestial event is different.
Solar eclipses happen every 12 to 18 months,
but Monday will mark the first time since 1979
that an eclipse will be visible across the entire
country. It is a total eclipse, but only along a
70-mile band running from Oregon to South
Carolina, according to published reports. Here
in the South Bay, the eclipse will be noticeable
at 9:05 a.m. and be fullest at 10:21 a.m. when
the moon passes between the earth and sun.
At its peak, the eclipse will block 70 percent
of the sun and create a halo effect across the
region. The visible band of sunlight is considered
dangerous to look at without protective eyewear.
Special solar-viewing glasses are recommended
and available at retail stores. Sunglasses do
not provide enough eye protection from the
eclipse’s damaging rays.
As many as 300 million people across North
America are getting ready for the eclipse,
which will last for two hours and 39 minutes
in Southern California. The last time a total
eclipse was visible coast to coast was in June
1918, according to information posted at
timeanddate.com. Monday’s eclipse is worth
catching because another one won’t happen
for another seven years: April 8, 2024. For the
majority of people living in the United States
and North America, seeing the full eclipse will
require a road trip to a state that falls within
a 71-mile band.
Parts of 14 U.S. states will go completely
dark on Monday, and the blackout will start on
the West Coast in Oregon and move eastward.
The blackout of the sun will make landfall in
Lincoln City, Oregon and then move eastward
through the western states of Idaho and
Wyoming. It will pass through the Midwest by
way of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois
before moving across the South toward South
Carolina--the final viewing place for the total
eclipse. When the sky goes dark, stars will
make a rare daytime appearance, promises the
website. Planets also become visible and other
features of the sun come into view during a
total eclipse.
Looking at any sized eclipse is considered
dangerous and should only be done using
eclipse glasses or using a pinhole view that
can be made at home. Instructions on how
to build an eclipse viewer made from card or
paper are available at www.timeanddate.com/
eclipse/make-pinhole-projector.html. Staring
at the sun without eye protection or a pinhole
viewer can cause blindness, and consumers are
being warned to avoid buying eclipse glasses
that don’t meet specific safety specifications.
Amazon last weekend announced it was
recalling solar-protection eyewear that the
online retailer sold ahead of Monday’s event
because of concerns they’re fakes.
Glasses considered safe for directly viewing
the sun must meet the International Organization
for Standardization’s standard, according to
American Astronomical Society. The proper
eyewear will carry a label that the produce
is ISO 12312-2 compliant. However, fakes
started turning up on Amazon and the Web
and there are concerns that people who bought
the protective glasses could be put at risk. The
society recommends checking eyewear for the
ISO logo and certification and buying from
vendors whose products have been laboratorychecked
and approved for safety. Eclipse glasses
should not allow any light other than the sun’s
brightness or an intense halogen lightbulb, the
society says.
The brands that have been verified as meeting
the optic-safety standard for an eclipse are:
American Paper Optics (Eclipser); APM
Telescopes (Sunfilter Glasses); Baader
Planetarium (AstroSolar Silver/Gold Film);
Celestron (EclipSmart Glasses & Viewers);
DayStar (Solar Glasses); Explore Scientific
(Solar Eclipse Sun Catcher Glasses); Lunt Solar
Systems (SUNsafe SUNglasses).
Meade Instruments (EclipseView Glasses &
Viewers); Rainbow Symphony (Eclipse Shades);
Seymour Solar (Helios Glasses); Thousand Oaks
Optical (Silver-Black Polymer & SolarLite);
and TSE 17 (Solar Filter Foil).
NASA officials also are concerned about the
public viewing the eclipse with inadequate eye
protection. Eclipse glasses that are scratched
or damaged should be avoided, and people
who normally wear eyeglasses should wear
them under a pair of solar-filtering glasses,
NASA says. More information about Monday’s
solar event, how to prepare for it and safety
recommendations for supervising children are
listed at eclipse2017.nasa.gov. •