Watching the solar eclipse? Tips from the engineer who founded the best viewing spot in N.C.

Don Cline, a former Greensboro business owner, has known for 20 years that a solar total eclipse would cross the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Transylvania County. And now he’s preparing to watch the eclipse when it occurs on Aug. 21 from the grounds of the nonprofit, astronomical observatory he started in the Pisgah National Forest. Cline, an engineer, was a founder of Micro Computer Systems, which was sold to Harris Corp. in the 1990s. Cline said the total solar eclipse will take…

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