Eclipse!

"Dusk comes too early, dawn too late. "

- Me.

How I viewed the 2017 and 2024 eclipses - an easy, cool way to view the eclipse/partial eclipse, using what you have around you.

Option 1: Pinhole viewer, using paper or tinfoil.
Take two pieces of paper. Punch a hole in one and hold it over the other.
Result is, a projection of the sun on the lower paper!

You can improve on this by using foil as the projector instead of paper with a hole in it.
Use a thumbtack to punch a clean hole in the foil and hold it above the paper.

Or, get creative - hold a colander over the paper - or use anything else that has holes in it to see crescent patterns on the paper!

Option 1: More information/options on pin hole viewers and the science behind them.

Source is the National Solar Observatory, click the link below.

NSF's National Solar Observatory: Unlocking the mysteries of the Sun and its effects on EarthNSF's National Solar Observatory (NSO) is the national center for advancing knowledge of the Sun as the dominant external influence on Earth.

Option 2: Put a piece of paper under a tree.

Option 2: Result - the eclipse crescents are projected onto the paper. The leaves act as pinhole viewers.

Option 2 - more crescents

Option 2 - dancing crescents - when the wind blew, the crescents danced around the page