DIY Box Pinhole Projector to See a Solar Eclipse | diy eclipse viewing boxdiy eclipse viewing box
Fast facts about the 2017 eclipse
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DIY Solar Eclipse Viewer Box and Viewing Safety Tips | diy eclipse viewing boxRich Marriott, KING 11:53 AM. PDT August 17, 2017
An concealment box is a simple and bargain way to cautiously appearance a solar eclipse. (Photo: KING)
If you are examination in the app, bang actuality to appearance the abounding story.
Don't accept concealment glasses? No worries – you can still appearance the concealment with a do-it-yourself concealment box.
You shouldn't anytime attending anon at the sun after concealment glasses or some added adapted blazon of eye protection, because you could accident your retina. Unfortunately, concealment glasses are acceptable difficult to find, and there is affair about affected concealment glasses, which ability accident your eyes.
Projection is a safe and accessible way to appearance the fractional eclipse, and you can body your eyewitness yourself. It's quick, simple, and a fun activity with the kids.
You are about authoritative a pin aperture camera, area the tiny aperture projects ablaze assimilate a screen. The tiny aperture interacts with the ablaze in such a way that the aperture acts as a tiny lens and projects a focused image.
- Agenda box big abundant to stick your arch in- Tape- Box cutter or scissors- Abandoned pop can- Advance pin- White paper
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DIY Solar Eclipse Viewer Box and Viewing Safety Tips | diy eclipse viewing box1. Cut a baby aperture (less than 1 inch by 1 inch) on one of the abbreviate abandon of the box, finer college up and centered.
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2. Band a area of white agenda on the end adverse the baby hole.
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3. Cut an abandoned aluminum pop can application a box cutter or scissors to accomplish a band of aluminum about 2 inches by 2 inches or a little larger.
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4. Put the aluminum band on a allotment of agenda and anxiously break it with a deride tack or advance pin. This makes the hole.
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5. Center the aluminum band over the baby aperture in the agenda box and band it down.
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Build Your Own Eclipse Viewer | diy eclipse viewing box(Photo: KING)
6. To use the concealment box, put your arch central the box (yes, really) with your aback to the sun.
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7. Orient the box so that the ablaze from the pin aperture avalanche of the white agenda and you should see an angel of the sun about a centimeter across.
This will appearance the chaw of the moon out of the sun during the eclipse. You can acclimatize the flaps and band any holes in the top to accumulate out as abundant ablaze as possible.
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There are lots of variations with altered admeasurement and appearance boxes and altered actual for the pin hole. You can additionally use aluminum antithesis or annealed agenda for a strip, but the pop can is a lot added durable.
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We fabricated a additional one that was absolutely closed with eye holes in the lower larboard corner. You artlessly chatter inside.
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Making an eclipse viewer with a cereal box | KXAN.com | diy eclipse viewing boxWe additionally acclimated aluminum band from careful ducting, punched a aperture in it, and bald off the back. We again centered the pin aperture over the aperture on the tape and attached it on the hole.
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