Hi Brian,
Unfortunately, I was not that lucky. However, I will never forget the
lunar eclipse on the day we had our written exam in physics in high
school.
In order not to miss it, we had to hurry through the exam. We assambled
in the school yard, each one of us equipped with a piece of flat glas, a
candle, and matches. We lit the candle, blackened the glas on one side,
and looked through the glas to watch the lunar eclipse. How did it
protect our eyes? The glas filtered out the UV radiation and the soot
particles protected us from the infrared radiation.
Sabine