Let’s add, out of an abundance of caution, never use sunglasses, exposed photographic film, or any other method to view the sun other than a solar filter expressly made for the purpose or a projection viewer like just described here. There are a lot of DIY solutions out there and none of them are safe.
also use glasses that have not "expired" - the time frame is 3 years. You may be OK if the lens aren't scratched or punctured in any way. Check them with a bright light bulb 1st (it should be dim or invisible). Doctors who do LASIK and LASEK have seen scarring "etched" on retinas of people who have looked directly at solar eclipses. We know of at least 1 POTUS who has these etchings.
@@margaretnicol3423oh I think the brain was frazzled long before his Whitehouse strongman act (probably done because he was worried the glasses would smudge his makeup) 😂
And if you want to check if you have the real deal for eclipse viewing glasses...put them on when the sun is out and the sky is clear. Not looking at the sun, you'll see jack naught. Looking at the sun, it looks like the moon but dim.
Be sure to go look, during either side of totality, beneath a good leafy tree that has speckles of light on the ground. There will be hundreds of little crescent Suns all over.
I did the pinhole box for a partial eclipse when i was a kid! It was _many many_ years before anyone could explain why that worked. Until then, I unironically believed it was magic.
I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more of these. Recently he did one on how to build a fire and how to make a battery. I got the feeling that he has more ready to go.
A couple other things to notice if you’re close to the path of the eclipse: 1] Even if you’re not in the path of totality and you’re near trees (or other tall plants) look _down_. The gaps between leaves and branches work like a very rough “pinholes” and “focus” small images of the partially eclipsed Sun all over the ground. (This also works if you’re inside, with blinds and window shades.) 2] Listen. Birds and animals can get confused by the unexpected darkness, and can think it’s night. It can get weirdly quiet during the eclipse. (This is especially true the closer you are totality.) 3] If you are in the path of totality, and are at a high elevation with an open view to the west, you may be lucky enough to see the shadow of the eclipse rapidly moving along the ground towards you.
1Here's some fun facts. 1) In Maine there won't be any leaves on tree's until the 1st week of May. And I'm just guessing probably same from western New York toward the north and east of there. 2) Totality in Maine is pretty much going to cover most of the Northern third of the state. Very sparsely populated meaning not a lot of asphalt. It also is the start of mud season. I'd be careful about getting adventuresome. On a good note, it's supposed to be sunny and in the high 50's to low 60's on Monday and normal sunset is a little after 7pm. Eclipse around 3:30. Should be a huge boost to the overall economy of the state as well as the good people of Aroostook and Northern Penobscot County's.
@@marktoldgardengnome4110: 1] Even if most leaves will be gone this time of year, there will still be plenty of needles, and branches leaving crIss-cross shadow patterns, etc. (basically anything that tends to leave smallish dots of light through.) Anyway it’s worth giving it a try. 2] Yeah, mud season is one of those things which you just can’t explain to somebody who hasn’t experienced And that someone who hasn’t experience it can’t seem to believe that “surely, it can’t really be all _that_ bad”. (Sort of like the first August you spend in Dallas. DAMHIK.)
@@marktoldgardengnome4110 All of Texas is forecasted to be cloudy or rainy. I'm seriously bummed. Still planning to get up way early and drive about 175 miles to get in the zone.
Your eclipse glasses should be marked with the ISO certification number ISO 12312-2 on the glasses' frame and registered as a 'Solar Viewer Brand' with the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
Disclaimer ahead: NEVER look through the eyepiece of a telescope or binoculars directly at the sun. That's a surfire way to immediately blind yourself permanently. ONLY ever project the light. What also works for a projection, though it's a little bit finnicky: If you have binoculars, or a telescope: mount it on a tripod (in the case of binoculars cover one of the ingoing lenses) and project the light coming out of the eyepice on a screen of paper. That gives a sharp (you have to adjust focus) image bright enough to be viewed in daylight by several people. It takes a lot of fine adjustment and constant re-tracking though. That's how I viewed the transit of Venus a few years back.
Another fun and easy triçk is to take a colander (strainer) that has circular holes and hold it out for the sun to shine through it. You can see the eclipse in the shadows of the holes.
We need some random deep goat, spy vs. spy, and upside-down Curious George to pop up in the series. Things are getting depressing, and some satire is desperately in need.
Beau, you are so awesome! 😁 For anyone living in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Libraries are giving away free solar glasses. I would like to think that other libraries around the country are doing the same. If you know of any organizations giving away these glasses, please add the information to this comment. Thanks and I wish you all a beautiful day 🌻
@@erwinfletcher4428 Awesome service! Despite the obvious vested interest 😂 Just kidding, of course. I love libraries and the whole library world. And I mean that, what a cool thing for libraries to do all over the place!!
Our library is giving them out. For the 2017 eclipse (we were in the path of totality) the school system was also giving them to kids to take home. I don't think that's happening for this one.
A kitchen colander makes a simple and easy projector with the capability to fine focus for better results A white sheet spread on the ground may allow viewing of shadow bands
When there was an eclipse in a neighboring state, Wyoming, I just used two pieces of paper with a pinhole in the first, as taught to me 50 years ago. The image was excellent. A friend had a telescope with the necessary filter.
@@MicahScottPnD Best in the US but ''Other countries will also get to see at least a partial solar eclipse, according to In the Sky. This includes parts of countries in the Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal and Iceland.''
If you don't have a shoe box you can also use two paper plates. You poke a hole in one plate and, facing away from the sun, hold that up next to your head with the plate facing the sun. You then hold the second plate down below the first to "see" the sun shining through. It will show the visible portion of the sun with the moon appearing as shadow.
"... and that's not all! As a bonus at no additional cost, you'll be able to use your phone to take images of the eclipse through the viewing hole. Or even video." Thank you, Beau, for injecting sanity into the safe-viewing discussion.
My part of the world is not on the path unfortunately, but viewing it on NASA's website is 100% safe! On a side note, the retirement home that my parents live in issued each of the residents 'glasses' in case they go outside.
I'm pretty excited for this one as I am in the direct path of totality .I'm right on Lake Erie and will be out on the water with my family .I plan on trying to video the whole event .Hopefully it's a beautiful day for all in the path.
There was a partial over Memphis when my daughter was young. We watched it using a pinhole through some cardboard onto a sheet of white paper on the ground. When it reached the max, we moved the paper so the image was in the top third of the page, and drew around the outline of it. I helped her write about it on the bottom of the page and then put the page in her Vacation Notebook.¹ ¹[We took notebook paper, summary paper & plain paper, crayons, markers, & colored pencils on trips. Each night, i'd let her choose what supplies she wanted to draw about her day, & she'd write about it as well. When she was still too young to write, i'd write for her _exactly_ what she said. I used summary paper for those trips to put an explanation for some of it. The first trip started, _"We druve and druve and druve."_ It was four hours to our motel that night. She drew the gravel in the beds by the door. I kept all her pages in a loose-leaf binder til she reached an age to keep it for herself.]
Love the new look! 🌞 Pin-hole projections, similar idea, but using a paper with the hole to shine through on to another paper or posterboard, giving you the image to watch, instead of looking directly at the Sun. These ideas are fun to do with kids. I'm hoping schools are letting their teachers have some fun with their classes Monday. ✌️😎🍀🌎
Most libraries were handing them out free. Our Metropolitan library handed out over 100,000 (could pick up 4 each). They just got another 10,000 to hand out.
Man, I remember doing this back in 1970, when my class observed an eclipse! We did our shoebox viewers and went out to our school courtyard. This brings back memories! Our library had a build-a-viewer program for kids last week. My town is now in the middle of the path of totality AGAIN, so there are all kinds of activities going on in prep for Monday's big to-do -- including license plate bingo! 😎 A librarian from Alaska, who is in town, donated a whole bunch of eclipse glasses to us -- I think that's the farthest state we've seen.
I did this last time for a partial eclipse - works great! Lots of odd things happen during an eclipse - birds land and stop singing - it's eerie. Crickets start up. If you have nocturnal frogs nearby, they'll start meeping. And shadows turn into faint stripes (weird!).
"Welcome to the Roads to Kukulkan. Remember, when wielding the sacrificial instrument you have to time to stroke just right to extract the still-beating heart and present it both to the god-king and to the sun god that both can bestow their blessing onto it." 😁
And if you live in Illinois where we're supposed to be able to see it, forget it we got thunderstorms rolling in. I remember the first time I had a bunch of teachers all excited. I was in 3rd grade & we lived in Indiana at the time. The teacher went on & on about how rare they are...and then the following year we were stationed in Europe & guess what? More Eclipse Madness. 22 Army moves across 3 continents later, by the time I hit my senior year of high school, I couldn't care less about eclipses, solar or lunar. Now I cherish those memories but then it was just the signal that we were about to move again
Amazing video Beau! It’s possible to make this same device inside a medium-large cardboard box such that you can stick your entire head inside it to view the projected image. I have some amazing photos of my friend standing in a field with such a contraption on his head during the August 2017 event.
Groovy groovy shows look really good on you. I had to do a second check because you’re on the main feed then I saw your your thing. Wow, hilariously cute , adorable. 😅
Oh Mr. Peabody, how you've transported me far back to my youth in the early 80's... We had a pretty good partial eclipse coming where I lived at the time, so I built a pinhole projector to watch it! However, being a good little science & space fanatic; what I built was a MUCH larger one that I actually wore over my head so I could watch the celestial dance play out like I was in a theater!!!
@@chezmoi42 Well, it was essentially black & white and in 2-D... but compared to my first experiences with the old Google Cardboard... the show I watched back then was more impressive!!! 😁
I work in a factory and was all set to miss the eclipse... Our biggest customer is taking a few days off, so we were asked if any of us wanted the day off... Thank GOD for seniority! Now I have to decide between Detroit or Indianapolis (both 3 hour drives) for my viewing adventure. 60 years old and I'm viewing my first totality.
I'm just trying to figure out where you could possibly live thats that distance of a drive from those cities and not already a better place to veiw the eclipse from the best place I'm aware of is a little town south of Findlay ohio I don't recall it's name off hand lol
@@johndoe-mm3jk I'm in Michigan and the view is supposed to be good, just going to hit about the time I'm driving home from work... The opportunity to be in the path of totality presented itself and, if the weather will be clear, I thought I would treat myself if possible. Short of being in the basement at night when the power went out, I've never HAD that opportunity before.
@@williamroop451 forest ohio is the name of that town it was on wtol 11 supposed to be in the path of totality for 4 minutes, I'm working in the area roughly 20min west of toledo and was really hoping to be able to get home with minimal delays it's not looking good though my jobsite is surrounded by 4 major hwys and I'm guessing the back roads will be jammed up right about the time I'm heading back west ,500k people is more than double the population of the county I'll have to cross to get home looking like i might want to pack a lunch and maybe even a bedroll lol😬
@@johndoe-mm3jk Hehehe and THAT's the reason I haven't decided yet... It sounds like the whole stretch from SW to NE is going to be overpopulated for the day... I don't have a PHOBIA or anything, but getting caught in a crowded area with no way to leave is DEFINITELY not on my bucket list!
That temperature drop, the fading and refining light, the little beams of light on the ground that change the amount of light/shadow and dance around in the breeze... I was in Shawnee Forest for the last one, and live near there this time. I remember one back in 1996ish? Howdy internet people from Southern Illinois.
During the last partial eclipse, I was walking and noticed the shadow from a tree had many crescent-shaped shadows. At first, I didn't realize what I was looking at because I had forgotten there was an eclipse. After a moment, I remembered when I realized the eclipse was projecting through the tree leaves.
Okay Beau - I have to admit that I had to watch this video twice, because when the image of you in those glasses popped up, I laughed so hard, I snarfed coffee out of my nose! But, once I stopped laughing, I was glad for the excellent info you provided.
Great advice! I learned another method from my father when I was a kid. He had this old survey telescope and he placed a piece of white paper behind the eyepiece to be the projector screen. He aimed the telescope at the sun (this was just a normal day with no eclipse happening), the image took up half the paper and was large enough to see several sunspots. Nearly 2 decades later we wanted to view the transit of Venus. I reminded my father of how we viewed the sunspots (he'd forgotten he had done it) and he was shocked I had remembered that technique. We had it set up in a couple of minutes and watched Venus transit the disc of the sun. I took that technique to the next logical level for the last total eclipse. I used my 4" 1 meter focal length Newtonian reflector telescope with a 3d printed jig to secure my smartphone to the eyepiece. I projected the lead up to totality onto my hand to get the correct focus and aim, then attached the jig and smartphone with a selfie stick so I could take the pictures without jostling the telescope. I walked away with some amazing pictures similar to those you see in science textbooks. Remember, do not look at the sun with unprotected eyes, and definitely don't look directly at it through a telescope. I used the telescope as the projection device and viewed the projected image on a piece of paper or my hand.
In the 3rd or 4th grade (I was 8) we learned about solar eclipses, and the teacher brought up the 2024 eclipse and how it was the only chance some of us would ever get to see Totality. I remember being so sad that I would be 48 before it happened. I'm actually 47 (little me forgot my bday is at the end of the year) and I'm so excited that I want to cry if I think about it too hard. Bought my glasses and put in my PTO 6 months ago. I'm gonna be so pissed if it's cloudy.
Check your local library for free solar glasses. The Buffalo Erie County public libraries have been giving them away for free for months and the branch I work at has handed out at least 5000 pairs
I've witnessed an eclipse when I was a kid and it was certainly memorable. We used those old camera negatives to shield our eyes during the eclipse event.
I bought a 6 pack of rated eclipse glasses. For $6 awhile back. When looking in my buy it again amazon section, checking for something I needed to reorder, I noticed the same pack is now $13. That's crazy!
During the 2017 eclipse, I enjoyed checking out what was happening around me more than the eclipse itself. I was more enthralled by the shadows cast around me. Find time to look around you, there will be countless videos only focused on the moon and sun.
the last solar eclipse i was present for, we held a perforated sheet pan up while facing away from the sun so its shadow hit the side of the house and watched the shadowplay on the wall of the house. it was very cool! you can also see some of it in the shadows cast by trees, looking Away from the sun at all times.
We will have clouds, partial eclipse for us too. Looking forward to seeing the resulting 'darkness' and yeah I have the glasses, 'cuz' I am prepared like that.
Let’s add, out of an abundance of caution, never use sunglasses, exposed photographic film, or any other method to view the sun other than a solar filter expressly made for the purpose or a projection viewer like just described here.
There are a lot of DIY solutions out there and none of them are safe.
Also, welding helmets or goggles need to be level shade 14 to be safe.
also use glasses that have not "expired" - the time frame is 3 years. You may be OK if the lens aren't scratched or punctured in any way. Check them with a bright light bulb 1st (it should be dim or invisible).
Doctors who do LASIK and LASEK have seen scarring "etched" on retinas of people who have looked directly at solar eclipses. We know of at least 1 POTUS who has these etchings.
AS A KID I WATCHED SAVERAL ECLIPSES AND YM EYEBLIGHT IS JUSST FINE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias?wprov=sfti1#
😂@@Erin-Thor
Yay! Science experiments with Beau! Can we please make this a thing?
Beau Nye the science guy [on youtube].
This is why I follow Beau.
It’s hard not to admire someone who can be so right, make so much sense, and look so goofy all at the same time.
😊 appreciate a whole video with the 😎 cool shades on. Beats a dumb dude squinting at the sun without proper gear.
It explains a lot though. Obviously the rays went through his eyes and damaged his brain!
Were you imagining a certain White House scene too?
Bet his eyes are Covid free though! 🫠
@@LimeyRedneckbecause he let the sunlight in.. 😂
@@margaretnicol3423oh I think the brain was frazzled long before his Whitehouse strongman act (probably done because he was worried the glasses would smudge his makeup) 😂
Wherever overcast, there may be records set for men yelling at clouds.
What are they going to kick?!?
And if you want to check if you have the real deal for eclipse viewing glasses...put them on when the sun is out and the sky is clear. Not looking at the sun, you'll see jack naught. Looking at the sun, it looks like the moon but dim.
Yeah I checked these by trying to see a ridiculously powerful light through it.
@@roadswithbeau Ha Ha! that light is SOOOOOO powerful!
...not sure the light cares if you ridicule it.
@vforwombat9915 He is obviously an anti-luminite 😅
The superpowerful light: “Am I a joke to you?”
The Sun: 🌞
@@irenafarm The people who think it is are going to FAFO...if Mother Nature doesn't save them from themselves with cloud cover.
Be sure to go look, during either side of totality, beneath a good leafy tree that has speckles of light on the ground. There will be hundreds of little crescent Suns all over.
Cool - that should make some good photos.
@@chezmoi42 Same principal as the pinhole device of Beau's. Not sure if the height of the tree effects focus or not.
Also use a kitchen colander or strainer! Wonderful!
I don't need to see one, I have a total eclipse in my heart 😊
Turn around bright eyes. 👀
That doesn’t sound great if you want your light to shine… 💙
The roads to craft time with Beau was not necessarily something I expected, but I definitely want more.
I would definitely watch a "Crafting With Beau" series of videos!
I did the pinhole box for a partial eclipse when i was a kid! It was _many many_ years before anyone could explain why that worked. Until then, I unironically believed it was magic.
I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more of these. Recently he did one on how to build a fire and how to make a battery. I got the feeling that he has more ready to go.
A couple other things to notice if you’re close to the path of the eclipse:
1] Even if you’re not in the path of totality and you’re near trees (or other tall plants) look _down_.
The gaps between leaves and branches work like a very rough “pinholes” and “focus” small images of the partially eclipsed Sun all over the ground. (This also works if you’re inside, with blinds and window shades.)
2] Listen.
Birds and animals can get confused by the unexpected darkness, and can think it’s night. It can get weirdly quiet during the eclipse.
(This is especially true the closer you are totality.)
3] If you are in the path of totality, and are at a high elevation with an open view to the west, you may be lucky enough to see the shadow of the eclipse rapidly moving along the ground towards you.
Wow, that's cool stuff, thanks!!❤
1Here's some fun facts.
1) In Maine there won't be any leaves on tree's until the 1st week of May. And I'm just guessing probably same from
western New York toward the north and east of there.
2) Totality in Maine is pretty much going to cover most of the Northern third of the state. Very sparsely populated
meaning not a lot of asphalt. It also is the start of mud season. I'd be careful about getting adventuresome.
On a good note, it's supposed to be sunny and in the high 50's to low 60's on Monday and normal sunset is a little
after 7pm. Eclipse around 3:30. Should be a huge boost to the overall economy of the state as well as the good people
of Aroostook and Northern Penobscot County's.
@@marktoldgardengnome4110:
1] Even if most leaves will be gone this time of year, there will still be plenty of needles, and branches leaving crIss-cross shadow patterns, etc. (basically anything that tends to leave smallish dots of light through.)
Anyway it’s worth giving it a try.
2] Yeah, mud season is one of those things which you just can’t explain to somebody who hasn’t experienced And that someone who hasn’t experience it can’t seem to believe that “surely, it can’t really be all _that_ bad”.
(Sort of like the first August you spend in Dallas. DAMHIK.)
@@marktoldgardengnome4110 All of Texas is forecasted to be cloudy or rainy. I'm seriously bummed. Still planning to get up way early and drive about 175 miles to get in the zone.
Your eclipse glasses should be marked with the ISO certification number ISO 12312-2 on the glasses' frame and registered as a 'Solar Viewer Brand' with the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
I came in through notifications, so I didn't see the thumbnail. I laughed out loud. Thank you, Beau!
All he needs is to be snapping his fingers to some jazz and he'll be a real hep cat.
When I saw the thumbnail, I beamed! Love the "hip cat" look, too! ✌️🌞🍀
My house is in 100% totality in Hamilton Ohio I hope for sun not clouds. Enjoy the show if you are near it.
Amazing, I hope it's an incredible view there!❤
It rained for the last one in my area (Charleston, SC) a few years ago.
Beau wearing eclipse glasses looks great.
Best use of an eclipse in literature: “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by Mark Twain.
Interesting!
Disclaimer ahead: NEVER look through the eyepiece of a telescope or binoculars directly at the sun. That's a surfire way to immediately blind yourself permanently. ONLY ever project the light.
What also works for a projection, though it's a little bit finnicky: If you have binoculars, or a telescope: mount it on a tripod (in the case of binoculars cover one of the ingoing lenses) and project the light coming out of the eyepice on a screen of paper. That gives a sharp (you have to adjust focus) image bright enough to be viewed in daylight by several people. It takes a lot of fine adjustment and constant re-tracking though.
That's how I viewed the transit of Venus a few years back.
It's particularly good for Venus transits. I felt so damned accomplished when I cobbled together a similar set-up.
Another fun and easy triçk is to take a colander (strainer) that has circular holes and hold it out for the sun to shine through it. You can see the eclipse in the shadows of the holes.
That's an easy one. I might try that this year. Thank you.
Who was that mysterious narrator wearing the colorful sunglasses? Deep Goat?
Joking aside the audio is much better, and the video quality looks good.
We need some random deep goat, spy vs. spy, and upside-down Curious George to pop up in the series. Things are getting depressing, and some satire is desperately in need.
Yeah, I couldn't tell who that was under those shades, could have been Zoro for all I know! 😂
Beau, you are so awesome! 😁
For anyone living in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Libraries are giving away free solar glasses. I would like to think that other libraries around the country are doing the same. If you know of any organizations giving away these glasses, please add the information to this comment. Thanks and I wish you all a beautiful day 🌻
Good to know, thanks! 👍
I work at a library in coastal NC. We are giving away free eclipse glasses too. I think many/most library systems are -while supplies last.
@@erwinfletcher4428 Awesome service! Despite the obvious vested interest 😂 Just kidding, of course. I love libraries and the whole library world. And I mean that, what a cool thing for libraries to do all over the place!!
Librarians are bad ass! 💜
Our library is giving them out. For the 2017 eclipse (we were in the path of totality) the school system was also giving them to kids to take home. I don't think that's happening for this one.
A kitchen colander makes a simple and easy projector with the capability to fine focus for better results
A white sheet spread on the ground may allow viewing of shadow bands
That's interesting.
the shadow of most leafy trees cast thousands of these pinhole images.
When there was an eclipse in a neighboring state, Wyoming, I just used two pieces of paper with a pinhole in the first, as taught to me 50 years ago. The image was excellent. A friend had a telescope with the necessary filter.
Beau, saving Americans eyesight, like a Boss 😎
I've just seen an article calling it ''The Great American Eclipse''!!! I guess other countries in the world won't be seeing it. 🤣🤪🤣
Quite possibly true.
@@MicahScottPnD Best in the US but ''Other countries will also get to see at least a partial solar eclipse, according to In the Sky. This includes parts of countries in the Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal and Iceland.''
@@margaretnicol3423 Ahhh, no kidding, so it's kind of true. The viewing of the totality is on in the US or maybe Canada, maybe Mexico?
Reminds me of a pinhole camera we made from oatmeal containers in photography
Yeah!☺️
If you don't have a shoe box you can also use two paper plates. You poke a hole in one plate and, facing away from the sun, hold that up next to your head with the plate facing the sun. You then hold the second plate down below the first to "see" the sun shining through. It will show the visible portion of the sun with the moon appearing as shadow.
"... and that's not all! As a bonus at no additional cost, you'll be able to use your phone to take images of the eclipse through the viewing hole. Or even video." Thank you, Beau, for injecting sanity into the safe-viewing discussion.
My part of the world is not on the path unfortunately, but viewing it on NASA's website is 100% safe! On a side note, the retirement home that my parents live in issued each of the residents 'glasses' in case they go outside.
Beauty! ❤
Greatest Beau thumbnail ever lol
Have a great weekend everyone. Enjoy the views too.
Beau, too cool!
I leave a thumbs-up whenever I learn something new. Thanks again.
A worthy topic and informative discussion, but LOL!!!! (Beau in those glasses!)
Back to school in the best possible way. That was fun - but so important. Thank you.
Thanks Beauguyver!
nice one!
I'm pretty excited for this one as I am in the direct path of totality .I'm right on Lake Erie and will be out on the water with my family .I plan on trying to video the whole event .Hopefully it's a beautiful day for all in the path.
Very cool!☺️
There was a partial over Memphis when my daughter was young. We watched it using a pinhole through some cardboard onto a sheet of white paper on the ground. When it reached the max, we moved the paper so the image was in the top third of the page, and drew around the outline of it. I helped her write about it on the bottom of the page and then put the page in her Vacation Notebook.¹
¹[We took notebook paper, summary paper & plain paper, crayons, markers, & colored pencils on trips. Each night, i'd let her choose what supplies she wanted to draw about her day, & she'd write about it as well. When she was still too young to write, i'd write for her _exactly_ what she said. I used summary paper for those trips to put an explanation for some of it. The first trip started, _"We druve and druve and druve."_ It was four hours to our motel that night. She drew the gravel in the beds by the door. I kept all her pages in a loose-leaf binder til she reached an age to keep it for herself.]
What a great idea, capturing a childhood.
Thank you. I'm in the path of totality. 😊
The sound was definitely better!
That's funny. I was just going over making these in elementary school during an eclipse in the 80's.
Thanks Beau.
Love the new look! 🌞
Pin-hole projections, similar idea, but using a paper with the hole to shine through on to another paper or posterboard, giving you the image to watch, instead of looking directly at the Sun.
These ideas are fun to do with kids. I'm hoping schools are letting their teachers have some fun with their classes Monday.
✌️😎🍀🌎
"You should never look into the sun, I feel like that should go without saying"
I mean, it should still be said.
Your best thumbnail ever, Beau. 😂🤣
My friend ordered the same glasses he had on. It was like a 10 pack for only a few bucks! ❤
Most libraries were handing them out free. Our Metropolitan library handed out over 100,000 (could pick up 4 each). They just got another 10,000 to hand out.
Man, I remember doing this back in 1970, when my class observed an eclipse! We did our shoebox viewers and went out to our school courtyard. This brings back memories! Our library had a build-a-viewer program for kids last week. My town is now in the middle of the path of totality AGAIN, so there are all kinds of activities going on in prep for Monday's big to-do -- including license plate bingo! 😎 A librarian from Alaska, who is in town, donated a whole bunch of eclipse glasses to us -- I think that's the farthest state we've seen.
Hi
Thanks Beau and crew 😊.
My grandchildren will be doing this.
Thanks for the information and craft project. Great for kids and parents!
Oh, and by the way...those shades are so you, Beau! Positively rockin'!!😅
I love the Beau-wears-a- costume days!
I did this last time for a partial eclipse - works great! Lots of odd things happen during an eclipse - birds land and stop singing - it's eerie. Crickets start up. If you have nocturnal frogs nearby, they'll start meeping. And shadows turn into faint stripes (weird!).
"Welcome to the Roads to Kukulkan. Remember, when wielding the sacrificial instrument you have to time to stroke just right to extract the still-beating heart and present it both to the god-king and to the sun god that both can bestow their blessing onto it." 😁
Reporting back: It was AWESOME!!! That ultimate contrast is something else.
And if you live in Illinois where we're supposed to be able to see it, forget it we got thunderstorms rolling in.
I remember the first time I had a bunch of teachers all excited. I was in 3rd grade & we lived in Indiana at the time. The teacher went on & on about how rare they are...and then the following year we were stationed in Europe & guess what? More Eclipse Madness. 22 Army moves across 3 continents later, by the time I hit my senior year of high school, I couldn't care less about eclipses, solar or lunar. Now I cherish those memories but then it was just the signal that we were about to move again
Howdy my friends! 🤗💙💫
Beau in eclipse shades isn't an image I would have predicted, but here we are. You're always full of interesting surprises.
More Beau Scout Camp! Woot!
That's a great one.
I wanna join the Beau Scouts of A. We dont talk about the A.
You just know that Beau is a swiss army knife type of guy.
Thank you, Beau!
Beau's looking like ZZ Top today.
Good stuff. Welding goggles and helmets work well too; it's what us dirt poor country kids used back in the day.
Does anyone else love the "VHS" aesthetic these videos have, or is it just my nostalgia?
Beau did this without being able to see anything while wearing those solar glasses! 😆
Fact. I couldn't even see the lighting which is really bright.
Amazing video Beau! It’s possible to make this same device inside a medium-large cardboard box such that you can stick your entire head inside it to view the projected image. I have some amazing photos of my friend standing in a field with such a contraption on his head during the August 2017 event.
Hey Beau and internet folks. Going to Missouri to camp out, Come on Mr Blue Sky, meet us there!
cool! have a great one ☀️
I'll be sitting on my roof in the Bootheel, so give me a wave!
Why do I now get the feeling that Elton John has always been prepared for a solar eclipse?
"I don't need no stinking glasses! And remember to gargle with bleach!" - Donald the fool.
You’re a remarkable man who can have fun with us while giving us an extremely important message ,thank you .
I love your eminently practical Road episodes.
Brings back memories when I was a kid. Me and my friends spent hours having fun trying to make the best reflective box.
Groovy groovy shows look really good on you. I had to do a second check because you’re on the main feed then I saw your your thing. Wow, hilariously cute , adorable. 😅
LOL those were my thoughts too.
Oh Mr. Peabody, how you've transported me far back to my youth in the early 80's... We had a pretty good partial eclipse coming where I lived at the time, so I built a pinhole projector to watch it! However, being a good little science & space fanatic; what I built was a MUCH larger one that I actually wore over my head so I could watch the celestial dance play out like I was in a theater!!!
Hmm, early VR goggles?
@@chezmoi42 Well, it was essentially black & white and in 2-D... but compared to my first experiences with the old Google Cardboard... the show I watched back then was more impressive!!! 😁
Much better audio on this one Beau. Hope you have clear skies 😎
I work in a factory and was all set to miss the eclipse... Our biggest customer is taking a few days off, so we were asked if any of us wanted the day off... Thank GOD for seniority! Now I have to decide between Detroit or Indianapolis (both 3 hour drives) for my viewing adventure. 60 years old and I'm viewing my first totality.
I'm just trying to figure out where you could possibly live thats that distance of a drive from those cities and not already a better place to veiw the eclipse from the best place I'm aware of is a little town south of Findlay ohio I don't recall it's name off hand lol
@@johndoe-mm3jk I'm in Michigan and the view is supposed to be good, just going to hit about the time I'm driving home from work... The opportunity to be in the path of totality presented itself and, if the weather will be clear, I thought I would treat myself if possible. Short of being in the basement at night when the power went out, I've never HAD that opportunity before.
@@williamroop451 forest ohio is the name of that town it was on wtol 11 supposed to be in the path of totality for 4 minutes, I'm working in the area roughly 20min west of toledo and was really hoping to be able to get home with minimal delays it's not looking good though my jobsite is surrounded by 4 major hwys and I'm guessing the back roads will be jammed up right about the time I'm heading back west ,500k people is more than double the population of the county I'll have to cross to get home looking like i might want to pack a lunch and maybe even a bedroll lol😬
@@johndoe-mm3jk Hehehe and THAT's the reason I haven't decided yet... It sounds like the whole stretch from SW to NE is going to be overpopulated for the day... I don't have a PHOBIA or anything, but getting caught in a crowded area with no way to leave is DEFINITELY not on my bucket list!
The audio quality and the content is giving me flashbacks to science class VHS's. Good shit.
That temperature drop, the fading and refining light, the little beams of light on the ground that change the amount of light/shadow and dance around in the breeze...
I was in Shawnee Forest for the last one, and live near there this time. I remember one back in 1996ish?
Howdy internet people from Southern Illinois.
During the last partial eclipse, I was walking and noticed the shadow from a tree had many crescent-shaped shadows.
At first, I didn't realize what I was looking at because I had forgotten there was an eclipse. After a moment, I remembered when I realized the eclipse was projecting through the tree leaves.
Thank you for the video.😎
Bless your heart for taking the time to broadcast this technique!
I love you. ❣️❣️❣️
Please, everybody! Do not repent in next few months, or there will be no eclipse!
Our local Walmart has eclipse glasses for $1.78
Thank you, Beau. As usual, your knowledge is appreciated.
The glasses are freaking me out a little, Beau. 😂
Got to see the partial here with the pin projector! Thanks Beau!
Heading now to Indianapolis to see the sun go away!
Okay Beau - I have to admit that I had to watch this video twice, because when the image of you in those glasses popped up, I laughed so hard, I snarfed coffee out of my nose!
But, once I stopped laughing, I was glad for the excellent info you provided.
Great advice! I learned another method from my father when I was a kid. He had this old survey telescope and he placed a piece of white paper behind the eyepiece to be the projector screen. He aimed the telescope at the sun (this was just a normal day with no eclipse happening), the image took up half the paper and was large enough to see several sunspots. Nearly 2 decades later we wanted to view the transit of Venus. I reminded my father of how we viewed the sunspots (he'd forgotten he had done it) and he was shocked I had remembered that technique. We had it set up in a couple of minutes and watched Venus transit the disc of the sun. I took that technique to the next logical level for the last total eclipse. I used my 4" 1 meter focal length Newtonian reflector telescope with a 3d printed jig to secure my smartphone to the eyepiece. I projected the lead up to totality onto my hand to get the correct focus and aim, then attached the jig and smartphone with a selfie stick so I could take the pictures without jostling the telescope. I walked away with some amazing pictures similar to those you see in science textbooks. Remember, do not look at the sun with unprotected eyes, and definitely don't look directly at it through a telescope. I used the telescope as the projection device and viewed the projected image on a piece of paper or my hand.
Made one of these as a child. Worked well.
In the 3rd or 4th grade (I was 8) we learned about solar eclipses, and the teacher brought up the 2024 eclipse and how it was the only chance some of us would ever get to see Totality. I remember being so sad that I would be 48 before it happened. I'm actually 47 (little me forgot my bday is at the end of the year) and I'm so excited that I want to cry if I think about it too hard.
Bought my glasses and put in my PTO 6 months ago. I'm gonna be so pissed if it's cloudy.
Check your local library for free solar glasses. The Buffalo Erie County public libraries have been giving them away for free for months and the branch I work at has handed out at least 5000 pairs
You're awesome! ❤
I've witnessed an eclipse when I was a kid and it was certainly memorable. We used those old camera negatives to shield our eyes during the eclipse event.
Loving the old school science edutaibment kid's show vibe lately!
We had a eclipse in SC, probably not total, thanks Beau
Some days ago? Lunar eclipse perhaps?
I bought a 6 pack of rated eclipse glasses. For $6 awhile back. When looking in my buy it again amazon section, checking for something I needed to reorder, I noticed the same pack is now $13. That's crazy!
Are these supposed to look like 80s and 90s instructional videos shot on video tape? Love it.
During the 2017 eclipse, I enjoyed checking out what was happening around me more than the eclipse itself. I was more enthralled by the shadows cast around me. Find time to look around you, there will be countless videos only focused on the moon and sun.
the last solar eclipse i was present for, we held a perforated sheet pan up while facing away from the sun so its shadow hit the side of the house and watched the shadowplay on the wall of the house. it was very cool! you can also see some of it in the shadows cast by trees, looking Away from the sun at all times.
Thanks, Beau! Made 2 of them. Foil also works along seam of box if there is a light leak. Who knew duck tape was translucent.
Doing with my kids the same as we did at school almost 50 years ago. Making a mirrored periscope and watch the reflection of it.
Amazing treat to get to pass along knowledge like that ❤
We will have clouds, partial eclipse for us too. Looking forward to seeing the resulting 'darkness' and yeah I have the glasses, 'cuz' I am prepared like that.