Yes, astronomerswithoutborders.org will be taking donations of used eclipse glasses soon. I checked the website today and they didn't yet have the address to send them to.

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I actually don't have many left, but will consider donating some.

BTW, I came across an old Life magazine article showing kids making and using the kind of viewer I created some time ago.

http://time.com/3737424/solar-eclipse/

I think I made my viewer about 20 years after the kids in the 1960 article. I am sure the world was in color at the time. Anyway, I recall that the stylish head-in-a-box viewer worked well. I could see sunspots with it and I didn't go blind.

-- Roger

Thank you, stefanj and jeffyjeep, for posting about the eclipse glasses donation projects! Roger, that was my only experience with being on (the local Miami) television news, when I "modeled" one of those 'hat'-type sunbox eclipse viewers at the Miami Space Transit Planetarium in 1991; I had never seen that type of sunbox before or after then, and I'm glad to have learned that it has a considerably longer heritage! (The late Arthur P. Smith, one of the founders of the planetarium and the Southern Cross Astronomical Society, is acknowledged by Mark Chartrand III in "Sky Guide: A Field Guide for Amateur Astronomers"
[see: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea...e rs&kn=&isbn= ], which contains instructions--illustrated by Helmut K. Wimmer, the famous Hayden Planetarium astronomical artist--for a large pinhole camera lucida sunbox, but it's the side-view type rather than the "over-the-shoulder" 'hat' type.)

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