People use protecting glasses to look at photo voltaic eclipse in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, April 20, 2023.

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People use protecting glasses to look at photo voltaic eclipse in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, April 20, 2023.

Tatan Syuflana/AP

Get your eclipse glasses prepared!

Next month the moon will move between Earth and the solar, treating viewers right here on our planet to a photo voltaic eclipse.

For some, this shall be an annular photo voltaic eclipse. That happens when the moon is at or close to the furthest level its orbit and seems small within the sky, and its transit in entrance of the solar will seem like a black circle on the gleaming star.

In the U.S., the annular eclipse on Saturday, Oct. 14 shall be seen in components of Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, according to NASA.

It will start in Oregon at 9:13 a.m. PDT and finish in Texas at 12:03 p.m. CDT.

Viewers in the remainder of the continental U.S. ought to be capable to see a partial photo voltaic eclipse.

The path of the annular eclipse may also cross into Mexico and different components of Central and South America.

When making an attempt to catch a glimpse of the annular photo voltaic eclipse, do not have a look at the solar together with your bare eye or via sun shades, binoculars or a telescope.

NASA recommends you put on secure photo voltaic viewing glasses or use a secure handheld photo voltaic viewer, which can assist defend your eyes. You can even use an oblique technique for viewing the eclipse, specialists say, akin to a pinhole projector.