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Solar eclipse is once in a life time opportunity and it is an absolutely not to be missed event. But it is important to watch the solar eclipse safely. Here’s how you can do it:

Step 1
Build a pinhole camera. This is really easy and completely safe. Take a cardboard or a similar hard material and make a hole with the help of a pin. Now with your back towards the sun hold the card board to your side or above your head. Allow the sun rays to fall on a dark colored surface which will act as a screen. This can be a black paper or a wall. You will see the sun as a bright spot; by moving far or close from the dark surface you can increase or decrease the size of the image. Ideal distance is around 3 feet between the card board and the screen. As the solar eclipse happen you will see the bright spot fading and getting smaller.

Step 2
Do not use X-ray films, sunglasses, dark colored glasses to look at the sun. These may make the sun look dimmer but none of these cut down the harmful ultraviolet or infrared radiations. You can use a number 14 welders glass if you want to look directly at the sun. Do not use your digital camera to view the solar eclipse.  It is equally harmful.

Step 3
You can photograph total solar eclipse using your digital camera without adding any lenses. But if you wish to photograph partial eclipse you need to put wide angle lenses with special filters. To capture total eclipse, turn off the camera’s flash and click without looking at the sun. Even when the sun is totally eclipsed DO NOT look directly or through your camera at the sun. You can use your pinhole camera to know when the sun has eclipsed completely and then you can photograph with your digital camera.

Step 4
Creative photography of solar eclipse. Use kitchen sieve to project multiple images of the sun on your screen. Each hole of the sieve will act as a pin hole and project an image of the sun on the screen. But remember to switch off the flash of your camera when you take this picture.

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