
Multipole people can easily view your projection. There is an easy-to-make cone device you can attach to a telescope so that His unique discoveries will change the way you look It's always an eye-opening experience for students and You can join artist Bob Miller's web-based "Light Walk" at the Exploratorium. If you want to learn more about how light works, Make a Safe Sun Projector with Binoculars You can also project an image of the Sun using a pair of binoculars Google "pinhole camera" for lots of ideas! Paper, or a screen to project your Sun image onto, or you can even adapt your pinhole camera into a If you want, you can make your pinhole camera fancier by adding devices to hold up your piece of Thought of as a collection of millions of "pinhole" images all bend) the solar images to all fall on top of each

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What do you think would happen if you punched a thousand holes in What you are seeing is not just a dot of light coming through the hole,Įxperiment by making your holes larger or smaller. Move your other piece of paper back and forth until the image looks best. Now, find the image of the Sun which comes through the hole. ( Don't look at the Sun either through the hole or in any other way! ) Go outside, hold the paper up and aim the hole at the Sun. With the pin, punch a hole in the center of one of your pieces This simple device is called a "pinhole camera". You can easily, cheaply, and safely observe the Sun by projecting it through a tiny

Which you can access via the web to observe the Sun. Or, if you have your own telescope, you will The easiest and safest is to project the Sun by building There are many ways you can observe the Sun, and hopefully sunspots,įor yourself. The Sun through a telescope or in any other way, unless you have the proper filters.Ĭan one damage their eyes by looking directly at the Sun? Observing the Sun for Yourself Observing the Sun for Yourself
