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lucidbadger t1_itr3ye1 wrote

Yeah, I couldn't find anything suitable to look through at the sun, so I ended up doing same projecting thing :) sadly, can't attach result here.

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mucking4on OP t1_itr7615 wrote

My first attempt was a newspaper with a pinhole. :D

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scumotheliar t1_itsnbif wrote

Any pin hole will do, when I was a kid we had an outdoor outhouse, pretty rough, the tin on the roof was full of nail holes which would cast nice projections of the sun when there was an eclipse. Walk under a leafy tree and all the little bits of sunlight managing to get through will be little crescents.

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666pool t1_itthl9i wrote

Any port in a storm, any pinhole in an eclipse.

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gahidus t1_itri35i wrote

I've always wondered if a cell phone camera could be used for this, and whether or not it would be destroyed.

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Lasitrox t1_itrk44d wrote

Thats what i used today, Works perfectly fine. Clouds in the right thickness are needed thought.

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666pool t1_itthisr wrote

Yes you can absolutely burn out the sensor in the camera. Might not ruin the whole thing but you can get hot spots in the image that will be permanent.

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gahidus t1_itthmmx wrote

Using an old cell phone or camera look at an eclipse might be viable? It seems like the kind of thing you wouldn't want to do with a current phone then.

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ForsakenWebNinja t1_ittulns wrote

I used to work in a building full of scientific researchers. The last time there was a solar eclipse it was fun seeing all the contraption people used to look at it.

For example one doctor brought out overexposed X-ray film to look through. Another one brought a test tube full of methylene blue to look through.

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renasissanceman6 t1_itu0g7h wrote

Step 1: buy some binoculars

That’s it. You did it yourself!

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