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Head’s up for all you early-risers: There will be a partial solar eclipse visible from D.C. on Sunday, November 3 at around 6:30 a.m.

Phys.org reports that the sun will rise on Sunday half covered by the moon, and the eclipse will last for approximately 45 minutes. While the Eastern U.S. will be experiencing only a partial solar eclipse, there will be a full solar eclipse happening over Africa about two hours later. But the peak time to view the partial eclipse in D.C. is about a half-hour after it begins. Phys.org reports:

The sun’s diameter will be over 50 percent covered by the silhouette of the moon at sunrise in Boston and New York, and 47 percent covered in Washington, D.C., and Miami. By about 45 minutes later, when the eclipse is about 8 degrees high in the sky (about four fingers high at the end of your outstretched arm), only a tiny bit of the sun would be covered by the moon’s silhouette. So viewers will really want to look between sunrise and about a half hour later, when the sun is only about two fingers high on the east-southeast horizon. And viewers will need a true horizon level with them, not encumbered by even low, distant buildings, hills, or mountains.

Of course, it’s extremely dangerous to look at a solar eclipse—even a partial one—directly, because the surface of the sun is way too bright (even when looking with sunglasses). In order to safely view it, you’ll need to make a “pinhole camera” by cutting a 3 mm hole in a piece of paper to project the sun onto another piece of paper, that you can view the eclipse on. Or, you can get some special sunglasses that are “almost a million times darker than ordinary sunglasses.” But I’m sure you already have a pair of those lying around, right?