![]() “If you can’t come here, you can’t go to totality, and you don’t have eclipse glasses, here’s what you do," he said. The principles behind the method all hold.īut perhaps the best, easiest last-minute tool, that doesn't require you to build your own simple pinhole projector, is a common spaghetti colander, as Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out at a talk on Monday: You can get the same effect from standing under the leaves of a tree, too. You'll be able to see the eclipse shine through on the shadows projected onto the sidewalk. To that point, one method the American Astronomical Society offered is taking your hands and, again, with your back to the sun, holding them up in a lattice-like, fingers-criss-crossed pattern over a patch of sidewalk. The pinhole projection method just amounts to tiny holes projecting the image of the eclipse onto larger surfaces. Now, if you don't have access to a cereal box or a pizza box, you can still pull off a version of this trick.
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