COSMIC ALIGNMENT — How To Watch Today’s Celestial Event
2024 Total Solar Eclipse — through the eyes of NASA — and how to make a Camera Obscura
PATH OF TOTALITY
For those like me who don’t watch TV, I just wanted to make sure you didn’t miss out on NASA’s live coverage of today’s total solar eclipse.
Click on the button below to watch live:
And you can find out if you’re in the path of totality — I so love that phrase — by clicking this link here:
I’ve got my eclipse shades, but if you don’t have any, here is an old post of mine that explains how to safely watch celestial events.
Here are those instructions:
Do not look directly at the eclipse.
If you do not have a pair of eclipse glasses, you can make your own camera obscura.
Here are the instructions for making a Camera Obscura for observing a solar eclipse.
Build yourself a “CAMERA OBSCURA” (a lensless lens):
Cut a rectangle in the format ca 40cm x 40cm (~ 16″ x 16″) from a cardboard
In the middle of the cardboard, cut a hole with 10cm x 10cm (~ 4″ x 4″) edge length
Place a layer of aluminum foil over the hole with adhesive tape along the four sides of the hole. The aluminum foil should have at least 15cm x 15cm (~ 6″ x 6″) edge length so that it is significantly larger than the rectangular hole cut into the carton.
In this aluminum foil you can pierce 50 to 100 holes with a pin within the 10 x 10 cm cutout – randomly distributed
Next (while outside in the sun) hold the cardboard with the aluminum foil over a white letter size paper sheet – with the aluminum foil in about 30 to 40 centimeters distance to the white paper. Shade the sun with the 40 x 40 cm cardboard so that the light of the sun falls from the sky – through the punched holes in the alufoil – onto the white paper.
Voila! Okay, 46 minutes until this celestial event comes to my hood, so I’m heading out with my shades and binos to hang out with other pro-eclipse celestial nerds xoxo 😎
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