

Poke a hole in the center of your card stock to make your pinhole projector. How can you see the solar eclipse with paper?Īll you need is a piece of card stock (or cardboard) and a pin. You can take photos of the eclipse with your phone camera without damaging the sensor, as long as you don’t have a zoom lens attached - there’s no danger to the camera itself. Can you look at a solar eclipse through your phone?ĭon’t try to watch the eclipse through the front-facing selfie camera on your phone, Tezel said in a news release. Eclipse glasses are available for purchase at big-box stores, electronics supply outlets and online.

These special filters are used in eclipse glasses and hand-held solar viewers. The only safe way to look directly at the sun is through special-purpose solar filters, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Looking at the exposures, choose the best shutter speed/aperture combination and use them to photograph the partial phases of the solar eclipse. Shoot the mid-day sun at a fixed aperture, (choose an aperture between f/8 and f/16) using every shutter speed from 1/4000 second to 1/30 second.
