The 7,000 viewers made in one month by 50 inmates of the Mexico City Penitentiary System and certified to observe tomorrow’s eclipse were sold out, reported the capital’s Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC).
However, even with adequate protection, as is the case with these glasses, the local health secretary, Oliva López Arellano, warned that it is not advisable to observe this astronomical phenomenon directly for more than 30 seconds and called on the population to watch it on television or social networks, by reiterating that seeing the Sun without the necessary preventive measures can cause retinal burns and even blindness.
For her part, the secretary of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation of the city, Ofelia Ángulo Guerrero, specified that the astronomical phenomenon will begin at 10:55 a.m., and it will be at 12:14 p.m. when it reaches its peak in the that the Moon will cover 75 percent of the Sun: ending at 1:36 p.m.
After the long lines that formed at the three points of sale of the visors made by prisoners in Mexico City, on the last day of sale, from very early on dozens of people were still looking to obtain them, some had registered since the the day before because they were not enough and they returned very early to obtain them at the SSC headquarters, located on Liverpool Street, Colonia Juárez.
A few meters away a man offered according to the same designs
at double the price, so the authorities reiterated the call not to be fooled, because the Hazme Valer viewers were only offered in three official points of sale and by purchasing apocrypha they would only put their eyesight at risk.
The interns were advised by scientific personnel, in addition the sheets were manufactured with black polymer of a special brand, which meets the requirements established in the ISO 12312-2 standard for solar eclipse filters and under the highest quality standards.
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