On April 8th, about half of the United States will get to see a partial solar eclipse. So get out your camera, your favorite long lens, and a safe solar filter.
For those who don't have a solar filter, you can get a ND400 filter (B&H has them) which will reduce the light by nine stops. A typical telescope solar filter reduces the light by about seven stops, so a ND400 is safe to use.
You can also stack ND filters, for a total reduction of at least seven stops. Just don't stack too many as image quality will start to suffer. (CPL's will also work as one of those in the stack.)
For more information on the eclipse, check out Sky and Telescope's article at:
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing...cle_1445_1.asp