Thread: What kind of eye protection can i wear to avoid going blind when viewing the transit of Venus?

You can do it using a cheap old telescope (one you don't mind being ruined) and a sheet of white paper or card. You just project the image on to the sheet and look at that so the sun is actually behind you.

Is there any kind of protection i can make out of normal household stuff? I don't wanna fork out for a welders mask.

If you don't have a pair of solar eclipse glasses, you can make them by applying dark car tint (like 7 or 10%) over a pair of sunglasses.

use a pin hole camera

it is essentially a box with a small hole on one side that projects the image onto the other side. so you don't have to view the sun directly.

No, there is nothing dense enough. If there's a telescope store or an astronomy club nearby, get a pair of "eclipse shades." Alternatively, view the transit by using a pinhole in a piece of cardboard to project it onto a flat surface.

For goodnes sake, I'll lend you my Welding mask!!

"If you don't have a pair of solar eclipse glasses, you can make them by applying dark car tint (like 7 or 10%) over a pair of sunglasses."

Dangerous advice.

To show you how bad the "car tint over sun glasses is" the recommended welding shade, 12 or more, lets under 0.001% of the light through not 5% or 1%. You don't have to buy the whole mask, you just get the replacement lens, which can be had for under $6.
A problem with the pinhole camera is that while you can see the sun, it takes a rather large distance from the pinhole to the surface to make an image large enough to see Venus and that means a bigger more awkward box. An enlarging lens is needed. You can test what you can see at any time, not just during an eclipse or transit.

Why, yes!

Duct Tape. Fully wrapping around your head, at least once, and covering your eyes - making sure there are no pinholes or tears - is pretty much a safe guaranteed method to avoid going blind while looking at the transit of Venus, using just normal household stuff.

Of course, the downside is that the view is likely to be quite poor....

But 10 cents worth of household Duct Tape will easily provide the protection levels needed, and without having to go to the expense of buying a Welder's hood window (nearly $5 at some welding supply stores) or to the effort of borrowing the same from an actual welder.
Or finding out where a local astronomy group might be meeting to view the transit and viewing with them...

No14 welders glasses, or several layers of 35mm film held over the eyes. Failing that you can project an image of the sun onto a piece of card