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I had been hearing and reading about this annular solar eclipse for several weeks, but May 20, 2012 snuck up on me, so I was not as prepared as I could have been for the viewing. This being said, I was able to use a binocular image projection technique I had come across in my brief pre-eclipse investigations to view a projected image of this relatively rare event.
(I was warned profusely and adamantly not to use the binoculars to view the Sun directly – so I did not!!!
- http://astronomy.wonderhowto.com/blog/use-binoculars-safely-project-and-view-upcoming-solar-eclipse-and-transit-venus-0135128/)
I did plan far enough ahead to test this technique earlier in the day on the 20th. I pulled out a sheet of white paper and my binoculars, uncapped only one side of the binoculars (recommended by several sources), and oriented them so that the image of the Sun would filter through the binocular lenses onto the surface of the paper.
This worked out even better than I expected - I could even see sunspots!
