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<blockquote data-quote="GTpdm" data-source="post: 611037" data-attributes="member: 1451"><p>They are actually home-made eclipse goggles, and you really can stare directly at the sun while wearing them; in fact the sun is the ONLY thing bright enough to be seen when you have them on.</p><p></p><p>My wife and I made them several years back, for an annular eclipe that occurred on the west coast. We bought welding goggles from Home Depot, sprayed on a primer coat, and then painted them up steampunk-style with supplies from a craft store. (If you look closely at the mother-of-pearl pair, you'll see that it even has bronze filigree, for extra bling.) We made the lenses by purchasing a sheet of the special polymer film (that stuff that they put in the cheap cardboard eclipse glasses--only a full sheet of it) from an online supplier. We cut out circular sections to match the goggles, inserted them between the two clear plexiglass lenses that came with the goggles, and voila!</p><p></p><p>We still had plenty of leftover material, so my wife also made lens filters for her cameras (and if we'd been thinking, we would have also made filters for our binoculars). We ended up getting some really nice photos of the eclipse. All that gear came in handy again during the Venus transit in 2014 (more awesome photos), and of course in 2017. (I have a brother who lives up in North Georgia, and was right along the line of maximum totality--it was a truly awesome experence.)</p><p></p><p>Time-lapse composite of the annular eclipse:</p><p>[ATTACH]6401[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p>Venus in transit across the Sun:</p><p>[ATTACH]6402[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTpdm, post: 611037, member: 1451"] They are actually home-made eclipse goggles, and you really can stare directly at the sun while wearing them; in fact the sun is the ONLY thing bright enough to be seen when you have them on. My wife and I made them several years back, for an annular eclipe that occurred on the west coast. We bought welding goggles from Home Depot, sprayed on a primer coat, and then painted them up steampunk-style with supplies from a craft store. (If you look closely at the mother-of-pearl pair, you'll see that it even has bronze filigree, for extra bling.) We made the lenses by purchasing a sheet of the special polymer film (that stuff that they put in the cheap cardboard eclipse glasses--only a full sheet of it) from an online supplier. We cut out circular sections to match the goggles, inserted them between the two clear plexiglass lenses that came with the goggles, and voila! We still had plenty of leftover material, so my wife also made lens filters for her cameras (and if we'd been thinking, we would have also made filters for our binoculars). We ended up getting some really nice photos of the eclipse. All that gear came in handy again during the Venus transit in 2014 (more awesome photos), and of course in 2017. (I have a brother who lives up in North Georgia, and was right along the line of maximum totality--it was a truly awesome experence.) Time-lapse composite of the annular eclipse: [ATTACH]6401[/ATTACH] Venus in transit across the Sun: [ATTACH]6402[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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