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You're supposed to use a filter that is approved for direct solar observation, as looking at the sun even for a brief time can damage your eyes. The fact that the moon obscures a lot of the visible light only opens your eyes to more of the harmful radiation that still comes to us originating in the sun's corona. So although the temptation is strong, it is unwise-- foolish, really, to look up at an eclipse without approved filters.


Recomendeed filters include welder's goggles, or materials that have been specifically made for the purpose of direct solar viewing. You can also view the sun using a pin-hole camera ... with you inside the camera and viewing the image projected onto what would be the film plate. You can make your own from cardboard: a tiny hole facing the sun will cast an image onto another piece of cardboard held behind it a few inches. You don't have to wait for an eclipse to test this; it is fun to experiment with pieces of cardboard to see how fine an image you can create. You are likely even to see sunspots when projecting the sun this way. The aperture (the small hole) should be as perfectly and smoothely round as you can manage, so just poking a hole into a piece of corrugated cardboard will not do well. You CAN cut a good sized hole out of the center of any piece of cardboard, and then cover this hole with a few layers of aluminum foil or some other material through which you have made as perfect a circular aperture as you can manage.

Truth is, the hole doesn't have to be utterly perfect; you will get an image of the sun anyway. But the more carefully made the hole is, the better quality the image will be.

People, humans that they are, have a strange tendency when viewing the sun through approved filters. I shared some viewing 'glasses' with friends during the transit of Venus a few years ago. They are safe and allow you to view the sun directly. But when it came time to remove them, more than one person did so while still looking up at the sun. Go figure. So be careful; to stop viewing, FIRST turn away from the sun. THEN and ONLY THEN, remove the filters from your eyes.

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