Museum & Gallery

Teeny Tiny Solar Eclipse

Another solar eclipse is happening! It’s a teeny, tiny one from Minnesota though — less than 1% of the Sun will be covered from our point of view. Join us at the Bell to take a look through eclipse glasses at this smallest of eclipses and learn about why we don’t see an eclipse every month. Solar safety Our telescope equipment utilizes safe Sun viewing methods; filtering the sunlight and projecting the sunlight. Solar filters include white light filters that block 99.999 percent of incoming sunlight, safely allowing us to see any sunspots that might be visible. H-alpha SolarMax II telescope filters out all the colors of sunlight except a specific red light (656nm) to allow us to see…

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Source: bellmuseum.umn.edu ↗ · checked Jul 27, 2026