Since the US total solar eclipse of 2017, interest in the little device I called the Safe Solar Viewer (SSV) has increased all over the globe. Leading up to the August 2017 total solar eclipse and afterwords, readers who built these safe solar viewers emailed with improvements and suggestions including an SSV with an adjustable image size, a large image SSV, a 3-D printed SSV and an SSV made from a standard cardboard shipping box. That input has been incorporated into the instructions found on this web site and for that reason I now title this site the web pages of the Safe Solar Viewer Community.

These pages provide information anyone can use for safely viewing the partial phases of a solar eclipse by projection using inexpensive optics. Some methods are simple enough for very young children to construct themselves with some parental help and all have a modest cost.