You can use a welder's helmet, the special glasses like NASA sells, or you can use a lens or pinhole in a card to project an image onto paper. Don't do the lens trick too early or too long, or you might burn your paper. Looking through a layer or two of fully exposed black and white negatives works.
The only time you can actually look at a solar eclipse is if it's a total eclipse, and at the point of totality, you can glance at it a second just to say you saw it. I looked at the total solar eclipse in March of 1970. It was amazing. It got dark and colder, and the roosters crowed in the distance.
I can absolutely understand why ancient people thought the world was ending when these things happened… I remember the one from several years back, and even the shadows had a creepy feel to them….
You can use a welder's helmet, the special glasses like NASA sells, or you can use a lens or pinhole in a card to project an image onto paper. Don't do the lens trick too early or too long, or you might burn your paper. Looking through a layer or two of fully exposed black and white negatives works.
The only time you can actually look at a solar eclipse is if it's a total eclipse, and at the point of totality, you can glance at it a second just to say you saw it. I looked at the total solar eclipse in March of 1970. It was amazing. It got dark and colder, and the roosters crowed in the distance.
I can absolutely understand why ancient people thought the world was ending when these things happened… I remember the one from several years back, and even the shadows had a creepy feel to them….