DIY Safe Solar Eclipse Pinhole Projector (From a Box)
Help the grands make a Safe Solar Eclipse Pinhole Projector Camera to safely watch the eclipse! Partial or complete solar eclipses are cool!
Servings: 1 Solar Eclipse Pinhole Projector
Cost: $1
Equipment
- Exacto knife
- Scissors
Ingredients
Instructions
- Carefully use the exacto knife to cut a 1” square hole in the bottom right area of one end of the shoe box.
- Tape a piece of aluminum foil over the opening so it is completely covered.
- Use the needle to poke a hole in the center of the foil.
- Tape white paper on the inside of the box on the opposite end of the shoe box from the aluminum covered cut opening. This is your viewing screen.
- Cut another 1” square hole in the long side of the box close to the end where the white paper was taped inside the box. This is your viewing hole.
- Stand with your BACK to the sun. Hold the box so that the sun hits the aluminum foil end of the box. The sun will stream through the pinhole in the foil and down onto the white paper viewing screen inside the box showing a white dot of light on that white paper. You can see this white dot by looking through the viewing hole in the side of the box.This white dot begins as a circle (like the shape of the sun) and will change shape in the same way the sun changes during the eclipse.
- Remember, DO NOT look directly at the sun at any point during a solar eclipse as it can permanently damage your eyes.
Video
Notes
Remember, DO NOT look directly at the sun at any point during a solar eclipse as it can permanently damage your eyes.