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UNG professor offers tips for watching total solar eclipse
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Visitors to the University of North Georgia's Coleman Planetarium watch a short film about the sun Sunday afternoon during the university's eclipse public education event. Visitors got a chance to use a telescope to look at the sun and learn various methods of viewing the eclipse. - photo by Scott Rogers
DAHLONEGA — Members of the Childs family know where they’ll be during today’s solar eclipse — home in Jefferson. And they’ll be actively watching the skies, Dan Childs said as he helped his children build a solar eclipse viewer out of cereal boxes Sunday at the University of North Georgia’s solar eclipse program. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” Childs said. “I’ve seen it and (the children) have seen it on TV, so we can (watch it together) and know what’s happening.”