For Orange County, the solar eclipse on Aug. 21 won’t be a complete blackout, but it will still be something to see.

While day won’t become night, the moon will seem to cover 60 percent of the sun. The peak of the eclipse will be at about 10:20 a.m.

“It is going to look like the moon took a bite out of the sun,” said Jerome Fang, an astronomy instructor at Orange Coast College.

OCC will be among those hosting viewing parties throughout Orange County, with eight solar telescopes set up in its parking lot off of Adams Street for the public.

“It helps connect us, the people on earth, with what is happening up there in the sky,” Fang said. “We can get kind of disconnected.”

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It is not safe to view the eclipse without taking special measures, such as using special, filtered glasses or peering through a solar telescope. Sunglasses aren’t enough; your eyes can be seriously damaged by the sunlight.

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Don’t have the special glasses or a solar telescope?

You can make a pinhole projector to watch the shadow of the eclipse, with your back to the sun. See below.

Here are places around the county hosting viewing parties, with most offering telescopes and/or filtered glasses. Some will live-stream the eclipse.