Instead, NASA advises wearing a pair of approved solar eclipse glasses, or viewing the phenomenon indirectly through a handheld eclipse viewer. If you don't have any of those things on hand, don't stress; the best way to view an eclipse is through a simple pinhole camera, which can be ...
Direct viewing is useful for observing solar eclipses, but it won't show you any sunspots or other details (except the largest of sunspots, which are quite rare). In 2012 this method could also be used to observe a spectacular event of the Venus transit, but sadly the next one will occ...
I've been in the astrophotography game for some time now, and while solar (and particularly eclipse) photography is a bit of a niche requring a different skillset, there still seems to be considerable overlap. I plan to use equipment that I already frequently use, some of which I designe...
Projection method: In addition to viewing an eclipse through specialty glasses, properly filtered telescopes/binoculars, you can also use a projection method to view a solar eclipse. To do so, you take out the eyepiece from a telescope and instead project the image onto a sheet of paper behind...
sheet of Baader solar film, make a couple of homemade filters for your binocs that can easily be slipped off during totality--a very easy way to get the wide field view. Otherwise, don't worry about it--just look. There will be so many good photos of the eclipse sloshing around...
Professional astronomers and amateurs tapped their creativity to capture the first annular eclipse visible in the U.S. since 1994
If you are on the path of an eclipse, such as the one that is heading my way on April 8th, then the Pi Solar Camera could take some memorable images. So get your Pi in the sky, and go out and examine our nearest star – the Sun!
Take command of the off-grid solar world with the Renogy 600 Watt 24V Premium Kit. Using our most efficient products we have put together a kit that can best suit your solar needs while on the go. This kit includes the new 100W Eclipse Solar Panel which is not only ...
In this false-color ultraviolet image, the Sun shows a C3-class solar flare (white area on upper left), a solar tsunami (wave-like structure, upper right) and multiple filaments of plasma following a magnetic field, rising from the stellar surface. The heliospheric current sheet extends to ...
If some of these massive emissions of matter are visible during a total eclipse of the Sun, they are not the most spectacular. Good news, we can observe them and many others practically every day and in all their splendor using an interferential Hα filter but this time in working ...