Mylar for solar eclipse glasses

[Abja Roots]

Hey

So I want to look at the solar eclipse tomorrow. I'd only ever seen them through the note-card approach, or the pin hole box. I recently saw that you could use mylar glasses. I would buy some tomorrow if I could, but I was wondering if we could use the regular mylar that we use for our rooms?

Thanks!

 

[Abja Roots]

Bump

 

[e4ian]

Sky is awesome.Iphone do a great "night sky"APP where you point the phone at the stars and it tells you the Names of the constellations etc..

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[greenpenguin]

you're not supposed to use regular mylar, you're supposed to use aluminized mylar. I made my own using my growroom mylar anyways, 3 layers seemed to be the magic number for me and it works great.

And I wear polarized 3d glasses at the same time... I dunno if that helps with anything at all but I'm hoping it blocks some UV... probably not.