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4701329 No.4701329 [Reply] [Original]

There's gonna be a solar eclipse in about three hours /sci/. What would be the cheapest way for we to actually see it and wake up tomorrow with functioning eyes?

>> No.4701333

Look at it directly.
Protection is for wimps

>> No.4701339

Just go here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/okinawa1tv

>> No.4701349

>>4701339

Why would I watch a stream when it's right above me?

>> No.4701357

>>4701349
That was mainly for people who aren't able to see it directly.

I heard mountaineer's sunglasses might be enough protection.

>> No.4701362

>>4701329
Take a glass shard.
Soot it over a candle.

Worked for the Moomins.

>> No.4701366

go to far side of the moon and watch it from there OP, should be spectacular

>> No.4701367

>>4701362
wasn't that a comet?

>> No.4701369

I've heard a lot about pinhole projectors, how would I go about making those?

>> No.4701408
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4701408

ebay, cheap and effective

>> No.4701417

>>4701408

Is that just a mirror attached to a camera?

>> No.4701428

>>4701417

Somebody didn't pay attention to the filename.

>> No.4701430

>>4701417
looks like the glass pane of a welding mask, those are great btw.

>> No.4701432

>>4701417
no, it's a read the fucking file name you first class faggot attached to a camera.

>> No.4701441

>>4701432
>>4701430
>>4701428

I don't have any of those lying around.

>> No.4701451

OP, I have heard of looking at it through a car window but im not sure

>> No.4701536

>I don't have any of those lying around.

Home Depot, Lowes, Menards

>> No.4701578

Step 1: find tall box
Step 2: cut hole out of top of box
Step 3: cover hole with foil
Step 4: poke hole in foil with pin
Step 5: cut square/hole out of side of box near the bottom
Step 6: put white paper over bottom of box
Step 7: point pinhole at eclipse
Step 8: look at paper on bottom of box
Step 9: ?????????????????????
Step 10: PROFIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.4701705

Albuquerque here, I just made a pinhole projector for my parents an hour or so ago. It's impossible to find any eclipse glasses or even welding glass around here due to thousands of people coming into town for the eclipse.

Box, white paper, aluminum foil, tape, and about 10 min.

>> No.4701711
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4701711

IMPORTANT: IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE A FILTER THAT YOU THINK CAN WORK, HOLD UP TO A BRIGHT LIGHT BULB. IF YOU CAN STILL SEE THE BULB, THAN THE FILTER ISN'T DARK ENOUGH.

>> No.4701747

>>4701329
use an old CD. Put the hole about where your nose is.

>> No.4701788

>>4701705
At what time is it expected to reach over there? I'm in Austin, Texas. I know I won't be able to see much, but I also made a pinhole projector to see at least some of the moon covering the sun. I am just not sure about the time.

>> No.4701808

>>4701788
I fucking hate this. Watching it projected is worse than just watching it covered on video. I am going to just glance at if for a fraction of a second, screw my vision.

I wish I had a welding mask. ;__;

>> No.4701811

>>4701788
Try between 8 and 9. It lists Lubbock at 8:30 for max eclipse.

>> No.4701817

>>4701811
Do you know when max eclipse is for New Mexico? We've been checking and taking pictures using welding glass as a filter, and we can see the moon STARTING to cover.

>> No.4701821

>>4701817
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/solar-eclipse-2012-map-shows-best-spots-for-viewing-.h
tml

>> No.4701834

I've heard this many times.
Why looking at an eclipse will "ruin" your eyes? And in what way exactly?

>> No.4701837

>>4701821
You are a gentleman and a scholar. Lucky us, we managed to turn up two or three welding masks and a few spare pieces of welding glass, because there's not a mask/glass to be found in town at any store in Roswell either.

>>4701834
Because staring at the sun in general is shitty for your eyes, but when there's an eclipse your pupils don't contract properly and get skullfucked by radiation outside the visible spectrum.

>> No.4701846

>>4701808
same here mate, I have excellent vision so I wouldn't mind light glasses

>> No.4701865

>>4701837

UV radiation?

>> No.4701871

Ugh, just checked it for less than a second, color dots everywhere

>> No.4701872
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4701872

Best I could get with the camera through my neighbors welding goggles. Gonna try for more in a bit.

>> No.4701876

>>4701872
If I look at this, will it fuck my eyes?

>> No.4701883

>>4701872
where are you?

I'm in los angeles and I don't see shit

>> No.4701885

>>4701883

Norcal, Fairfield/Suisun City area.

>> No.4701888

I have looked at the sun. It's bright. I see some spots for a moment or two and then everything is normal. Why is looking at it during a solar eclipse supposed to be so much worse?

>> No.4701889
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4701889

I couldn't get a shot of the eclipse directly, but you can see it in the lens flare. Here the image is cast on the building.

>> No.4701891

>>4701888
you won't feel pain or anything, it will start in a few hours and tomorrow you'll be blind

>> No.4701893

Will it be safe to look at it through my window which is tinted like 25-30%

>> No.4701894
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Here you can see the the image cast in the sky.

>> No.4701899

When will it happen? I live in Wisconsin

>> No.4701904
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4701904

If you don't have a pair of welding goggles handy, just grab a piece of cardboard and poke a hole in it with a pen. Then, cast a shadow on the ground with it. Pic related is the results.

>> No.4701905

>>4701894
how do you get that reflection on the left?

>> No.4701906

hey /sci/, on a normal day, I can look at the sun without any protection in my eye. this mean that I can also do this during a solar eclipse right?

>> No.4701910
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4701910

How many /sci/ users are going to be blind in the morning?
Simply staring enough to adjust to the light of the sun is enough. It's like using a magnifying glass on an ant.

>> No.4701911

seriously though, not trolling.
will looking at the pics of eclipses fuck your eyes?
Like the high frequrncies get imprinted or sonething?

>> No.4701917
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4701917

I live in Arizona, just took a picture... Ehh..

>> No.4701919
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4701919

Just watched it from Missouri. Sun already set.

>> No.4701920

>>4701911

I hope you're joking.

>> No.4701921

>>4701917
No. It's an image file
>>4701911
You can't take a picture without a filter. Camera lenses work just like your eye and can't tell the difference.

>> No.4701922

>>4701911
>not trolling
I don't believe you because that's the most retarded thing I read today
8/10

>> No.4701923
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4701923

Another from the Show Em state

>> No.4701924

>>4701922
you cant be sure for anything.
pics are imprinted photons right?
so maybe the high frequency that fcks your eyes is imprinted as well

>> No.4701936

>>4701924

Just stop.

>> No.4701939
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4701939

>imprinted photons

>> No.4701944

>>4701936
>>4701939
Fuck off alright?
you didnt know about this till you learned it. Im just asking a question, you could simply answer insted of bashin me for not knowing something you do.
or were you born with that knowledge?

>> No.4701954
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>>4701944
his face when

>> No.4701958

Use 3 to 4 sunglasses done.

>> No.4701959
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4701959

>>4701944
The image in the camera is what would hit your brain after it burns your retina. The computer cannot recreate the sun like that.

>> No.4701967

>>4701944
Not who you're talking to, but what the fuck is wrong with you? It's fucking common sense. Can you fucking light up a dark room with a photo of the sun? Jesus christ

>> No.4701962

Hey I live in southern california and when should I be watching for it?

>> No.4701973

>>4701962
Right now.

>> No.4701974
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4701974

k, i'm done.
score?

>> No.4701975

>>4701962
NOW....
check the shadows of the leaves, they'll show you the eclipse

I'm afraid the sun is too bright and without proper glasses you won't see shit

>> No.4701977
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4701977

>>4701962
You missed most of it.

The only thing you can do aside from the retarded pin hole viewer if you dont have the viewing glasses or welding shield is to look at the shadows of tree leaves, they have hundreds of crescents. I just looked in my back yard and was able to make MY shadow have crescents all over, too.

Pic isn't mine, but it is what you will see. Go look at tree shadows, it is amazing,

>> No.4701981

>>4701975
>>4701977
tree shadow mine

>> No.4701982

So it's possible to use a mirror right? What about looking through the windshield of the car with sunglasses on? Also, I'm using a piece of cardboard with tinfoil on top, does that actually work at all?

>> No.4701987

>>4701977
Cool as fuck, they're fucking eveywhere on my deck.

>> No.4701996
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4701996

>>4701329

I did the hold your hands together like a waffle over your head and look at the shadow and

IT FUCKING BLEW MY MIND HOLY SHIT

>tfw reality has a blur tool

>> No.4702000

i live near san francisco
just finished taking pictures
will upload soon

>> No.4702004
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4702004

>>4701977
Got mine at a bad part of the eclipse, but you can see many many crescents on the car, look at the passenger seat.

I know, shitty car. Not mine, it's some fuck face's beater in my yard.

>> No.4702008

Figured out a way to look at the eclipse, I'm in Southern California currently. Just look through side window and out the back window of your car with sunglasses, you can see it pretty clearly. I would look too long though, that shit's probably terrible for your eyes.

>> No.4702010
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4702010

>the sun went under the horizon before a full eclipse

Fuck you New Mexico.

>> No.4702013

>>4702004
Anyone got more images like this of the crescent effect?

>> No.4702017

>>4702010
Where in NM are you? We had the full thing in Roswell, and it hasn't even set yet.

>> No.4702021

>>4702017

Rio Rancho.

>> No.4702022

>>4702021
Yeah, I imagine the mountains probably fucked with that something proper, huh?

>> No.4702024
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>>4702013

>> No.4702025
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>>4702024

And it was doing some funky stuff with my own shadow.

>> No.4702026

moon is coming. Will I see it eclipsed as well?

>> No.4702034

>>4702026
..... wat

I don't wanna call you dumb but common sense, man.

>> No.4702039
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4702039

>MFW seeing the eclipse by using 4 sunglasses at once

>> No.4702043

My mother has these glasses that she saved from a eclipse she viewed in hawaii when she lived there.

Viewed it directly master race

>> No.4702046
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4702046

>>4702000

>> No.4702047

>>4702039
enjoy your blindness man

>> No.4702050

Stranger: nice

You: Helios is angry.

Stranger: theres an eclipse going on right now

You: He hath darkened in this hour.

You: He cast many shadow upon the ground

You: Shadows of himself

You: In which he is no longer whole

Stranger: do u speak english ?

You: What does this mean, brother?

>Do you speak english?

>> No.4702054

>>4702046
how on earth did you get that

>> No.4702052

>>4702004
>>4702024
>>4702025
I demand more freaky crescent shadows.

>> No.4702057

>>4702054
Probably a welding shield over that lens.

>> No.4702058

>>4702054
eos 7d
lens @ 400mm
1/4000s exposure
aperature 29
cd over center of lens

>> No.4702059
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4702059

Can see the shadow of the moon in the hole's shadow.

>> No.4702061

>>4702059
>dat tiny thumbnail

You have that gene, I am sorry.

>> No.4702066

Alright guys, so I stared at the sun and chanted for about 1 minute. It's been half an hour and there's still as small blue dot in my vision. Is that okay? Or will it stay there forever.

>> No.4702069
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4702069

My jimmies were unrustled

>> No.4702073
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>>4702046
I accidentally looked through the optical viewfinder once lol

>> No.4702075
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>>4702052
it was beautiful

>> No.4702079

>>4702073
same settings as >>4702058 but no cd

>> No.4702085
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>>4702073
lol not a good idea

>> No.4702096
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>>4702085
yea fuck that was bright.
hope I didn't damage my eyes

>> No.4702099
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4702099

iphone 4S, three pairs of cheap sun glasses, and a good pair of binoculars makes for a good shot

>> No.4702101

>>4702004
I posted this in /g/ and they are mad as fuck. I didn't realize how aspie they were, they are acting like /a/.

>> No.4702108

Why can't you look at an eclipse?

I look at the sun all the time and I'm not blind.

is it brighter in an eclipse or what?

>> No.4702106

Basically how it happens is that those bright spots in your eyes that haven't left by now will turn black.
Congratulations. You are now legally blind. See an optometrist. Enjoy Social Security

>> No.4702111
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>>4702108

Since there's little visible light, your pupils don't contract properly, leaving your retinas open to all the other radiation the sun puts out.

>> No.4702113

>>4702111
Oh fuck that sounds bad.
Thanks for making me learn something today.

>> No.4702115

I live in the California bay area, and fuck, the sun's going down over the neighboring apartments. I have to write an essay for tomorrow, so I can't go anywhere.

Managed to do the hole-in-a-piece-of-paper thing, though. Fucking awesome.

>> No.4702143

>>4702106
So I get free money for staring at the sun? Man oh man, I'm gonna do this every day from now on. Who needs eyesight when you have money?

>> No.4702165

>>4702143
How will you play Touhou?

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>> No.4702207

>>4702197
Those are fucking huge, man.

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5/6

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6/6

>> No.4702214

>>4702207
lol sorry forgot

>> No.4702225

The layers of sunglasses works

>> No.4702230

>>4702209
yeah um do you have less a shitty image compression codec?

>> No.4702254

>>4702230
No it's just the shitty camera I had.

Not too concerned with the quality.

>> No.4702291
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/bashi0313/7237466828/in/photostream

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex12ga/7237294472/in/photostream

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/guvnah/7238276006/in/photostream/

>> No.4702358
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>> No.4702360

Is the eclipse visible in Israel? I can't seem to find a good map of where gets to see it.

>> No.4702368
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>> No.4702370

>>4702368
no way this isnt real

>> No.4702440
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4702440

Tokyo

>> No.4702449

>>4702370

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/photogalleries/100115-eclipse-ring-fire-annular-pict
ures/#/airplane-solar-eclipse-annular-ring_11934_600x450.jpg

>> No.4702695

>>4702368

Sell it as your logo to an airliner, and make billions more than the math majors.

>> No.4702723
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4702723

Amerifags looking forward to 21 August 2017? You get your own personal total eclipse

>> No.4702745

I literally looked at it by jabbing a hole in a newspaper with a pen and holding it up in front of flat surface (a door). All the absurdly overcomplicated techniques here are amusing, since they're all getting the exact same thing I saw.

>> No.4702759
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4702759

here's something ive had for years

>> No.4702766

>>4702723
pffft, like any one will be around after 21 Dec 2012

>> No.4703448

>>4702745
You saw a projection, not the thing directly, faggot.