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Here is a link to an article about American Paper Optics, the American manufacturer of solar eclipse glasses. After the 2017 eclipse, I drove to Bartlett, TN, met with them, and they gave me a tour of their factory. They are really great people! I bought 1,000 Solar Eclipse Timer custom glasses from them, they gave me glasses to give out at my eclipse talks, and they helped my son's school get glasses in a rush when the school's order fell through with a foreign manufacturer. You wouldn't believe the "war stories" they told me about the period just before the 2017 eclipse trying to get glasses to people that needed them. They don't have dedicated retail space, they have a tiny waiting area at the front door to their facility. So, in 2017, each day they set up a pop-up tent outside the front door to have a place for people to pick up orders and make new sales. Cool folks!

A big solar eclipse is coming. Glasses you’ll view it through were likely made in Bartlett American Paper Optics sold 45 million pairs of eclipse glasses before the 2017 eclipse. It hopes to sell more than 75 million before the next one.

It came to my attention this week that people don't' realize that my app has an extensive Help File. Within the Help File, in the appropriate sections, there are active hyperlinks that go directly to my YouTube videos on various eclipse subjects. The video subjects include photography, observing and the partial phase phenomena. The app is a FREE download with access to this Help File. I invite you to get the app, scroll through the Help File and go to my YouTube channel. I have more eclipse videos that I am working on right now, including a complete eclipse photography tutorial set, so consider subscribing. The Help File of course also explains all of the functions of the app as well as eclipse preparation tips. For easy navigation the Table of Contents lines are also links to the pages, so you can get around the Help File easily. Future eclipse data sets are available by an in-app purchase process. Thanks!

This Friday Night I am invited back to give a talk at the Von Braun Astronomical Society in Huntsville, Alabama. Prior to the 2017 solar eclipse, I gave an eclipse photography talk there. And in 2018 I gave an overview talk about the success of the Great American Eclipse. The VBAS has a rich history that dates back to its organization in 1954 and having Dr. Wernher von Braun be its first president in 1955. Many of the early Redstone Arsenal rocketeers who built the Saturn V rocket that got us to the Moon have been members through time.

This Friday I will share time with two other presentations about

the 2019 total solar eclipse. Sharon and Jim Gardepe will discuss their unfortunate experience of being clouded out aboard the Paul Gauguin eclipse cruise. Alphonse Sterling, a NASA solar physicist, will discuss his experience in Chile. I will discuss my experience in Argentina and my topic will be the solar eclipse Purkinje Effect.

Yesterday I uploaded a new YouTube video that discusses ALL of the details about this fascinating lighting effect including some of my basic research about it. So when my app does the partial phase announcement "Observe For Changes In Ambient Lighting" at 4 minutes before 2nd Contact, this is the reason I have this reminder programmed.

A Solar Eclipse Fools Your Eyes! Solar Eclipse Purkinje Effect! About 4 minutes before totality you experience the weirdest lighting effect you can ever witness on Earth! The slow transition to night vision through the Me...

My 1st attempt at putting my setting eclipse sequence together. Quickly working with the JPG files and almost no processing, only making the totality layer lighter to bring out the mountains. It was neat to see the eclipse set into the mountains.