Found in the Glare

 

 

Feeling a bit proud at the moment. The last time we had a solar eclipse here - a partial, back in the Seventies - I made a pinhole projector from a cardboard box and some craft paper. My Mother remembered this and asked for a repeat performance. 

 

Now, I have some safe viewing glasses, but she's not sure she can use them. It was the work of a half an hour, using a cardboard box, a couple of white, opaque comic book backing boards a lot of duct tape and a large safety pin to make another pinhole projector. The box isn't quite large enough - the Sun only projects to a bit over a quarter of an inch - but otherwise this worked very well.