You might be curious about how to observe the sun safely without losing your eyeballs. There are many different ways to observe the sun without damaging your eyesight. In fact, the quickest and simplest way to do this is to build a super-easy pinhole camera that projects an image of the sun onto an index card for you to view.


CAUTION: DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUN THROUGH ANYTHING WITH LENSES!!


This simple activity requires only these materials:


  • tack
  • 2 index cards (any size)
  • sunlight
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4 Responses to “Pinhole Solar Projector”

  1. lauriedopkins says:

    can you use the the Stellarium software to view real time pics of the sun for the sunspot pinhole solar projecter .

  2. Yes – it was a beautiful sight!

  3. lovetolearn says:

    I just tried this, and it worked really well! it worked just like you said! a neighbor said I could also use welding goggles to look at the sun, but I’m not sure. thanks for tip!

    I’m in So. Cal