Eclipse

There’s a partial eclipse tomorrow afternoon; most prominent at about 5:15. Apparently the Reuben H Fleet museum has glasses you can wear to view it. Otherwise, a neat way to watch it is to make yourself a “box camera” – take a big box; fold down or remove the top flaps; pop a small round hole in a side of it (with a pen, for example), then let the sun shine through the hole to the inside of the box, where you should see the eclipse well-defined. If you want to get sophisticated about it, cut a larger hole in the side, cover the hole with piece of aluminum foil, then make your small hole in the foil (easier to make a nice clean hole in the foil than in the side of the box); tape a white piece of paper to the inside of the box so the “camera” will shine on it – you can then label it and take pictures! A bigger hole makes a bigger, but less-defined image; the hole should be as round as possible. You can also do some stuff using binoculars as a lens (NOT looking through them, of course).

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