Submitted by mucking4on t3_ydbgrl in space
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mucking4on OP t1_itr7615 wrote
My first attempt was a newspaper with a pinhole. :D
Lasitrox t1_itrk44d wrote
Thats what i used today, Works perfectly fine. Clouds in the right thickness are needed thought.
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.
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.
666pool t1_itthl9i wrote
Any port in a storm, any pinhole in an eclipse.
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.
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.
renasissanceman6 t1_itu0g7h wrote
Step 1: buy some binoculars
That’s it. You did it yourself!
mucking4on OP t1_itv16cn wrote
Where to next, o killer of joy?
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.