Thread: What's a good website I may find directions on how to build or purchase a device to safely view an eclipse?!

Please a trustworthy site with reliability! I know the next solar eclipse is in about ten years, but it's never to late to start!

Go to your local hardware store and ask if they have Shade 14 Welders glass. I'm holding a piece right now, brand name Radnor. Just make sure it is shade 14. Anything less and it will hurt your eyes, anything more and you won't see anything. (you don't have to wait for an eclipse, you can look at the sun with this product whenever.

I hope this helps!

Any astronomical store that sells good telescopes will have solar viewing glasses available (they look sort of like binoculars, not regular eyeglasses).

Edmunds Scientific had a solar scope that uses reflective principals and you can use it now to view sun spots.

http://scientificsonline.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_3052674

http://scientificsonline.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_3036425

Just make yourself a pinhole camera. Get a box, and place white paper or paint inside it at one end. At the other end, make a small hole, say 1/4 inch. In the side, make a hole to look inside. Point the end with the small hole at the sun, and an image will be projected on the white paper inside. This is a perfectly safe way to view an eclipse.