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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe easiest ways to watch the eclipse (without a pinhole viewer or eclipse glasses).
I'm one of the people who is daunted by the idea of making a pinhole viewer. So the following ideas appealed to me (besides watching it on TV!)
STAND WITH YOUR BACK TO THE SUN:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/19/cant-find-the-protective-glasses-to-watch-the-solar-eclipse-go-old-school/?utm_term=.170a5b027ec1.
Waffle fingers
If you have nothing handy with which to watch, dont fret. Use your hands. Make waffle fingers! Look away from the sun and crosshatch your fingers, so they make little holes, so you can project the suns rays onto the side of a building or sidewalk. Check these suggestions from the American Astronomical Society. Do not look at the sun through your fingers! Let your fingers work for you and project the sun onto a surface.
Everyday kitchen gadgets work beautifully. Your favorite colander, a flat cheese grater, a serving spoon with small holes all serve to project the sun onto a wall, driveway or cardboard. Do not look at the sun through colanders, graters or slotted spoons! Again, hold up your device and project the sun onto a surface.
Or, stand under a leafy tree and look to the ground. You can see hundreds of eclipse projections right at your feet.
Bladewire
(381 posts)pnwmom
(108,978 posts)we're only going to be in the 90% range.
Do you have a GIF for that, too?
Bladewire
(381 posts)I hope everyone enjoys the magic tomorrow
Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)Everything you see will be upside down and backwards. That's a fact, Jack.
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)Even if you used a looking glass to reverse the image, it would still be upside down.
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)Poster board for shadows, solar filter for cell phone, solar glasses, wrap around sunglasses to go over solar glasses, camera with filter...all for just 60% coverage
pat_k
(9,313 posts)dozens of little eclipse images!
femmedem
(8,203 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)...like Trump's head.
phylny
(8,380 posts)On my driveway:
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On my deck:
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We also did the colander thing, and that was cool, too.
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)The concrete patio looked like it was bubbling up -- like your driveway.
The light effects down below were more interesting than the single crescent I could see through my solar-approved glasses.