WO2005081031A1 - Device for looking at eclipses and the sun - Google Patents
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- G02—OPTICS
- G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
- G02B23/00—Telescopes, e.g. binoculars; Periscopes; Instruments for viewing the inside of hollow bodies; Viewfinders; Optical aiming or sighting devices
- G02B23/02—Telescopes, e.g. binoculars; Periscopes; Instruments for viewing the inside of hollow bodies; Viewfinders; Optical aiming or sighting devices involving prisms or mirrors
- G02B23/08—Periscopes
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- TECHNICAL FIELD falls within the technical field of apparatus for safely seeing (without damage to the eyes) the Sun, either when an eclipse occurs or when there is none.
- Current systems for viewing the solar disk consist of: a) Complex optical instruments, very expensive and inaccessible to most people. b) Glasses or plates for direct vision, which have a powerful filter to strongly attenuate the luminosity of the Sun. Against this type of cheap utensils for direct vision, ophthalmologists warn of their danger, since an unapproved filter or the existence of a small Pore or a streak in an approved one can have irreversible consequences for the retina.
- the present invention allows to see the image of the Sun projected on a screen (and therefore safe for the eyes) obtained by passing its rays through a small hole (camera obscura) and having undergone at least one reflection (i.e. there may be one, several or many reflections) to shorten the dimensions of the apparatus.
- the Sun's diameter is about a hundred times less than its average distance from Earth. So when you get your image in a camera obscura, the diameter of the image is one hundredth of the projection distance, that is, the distance between the hole in the camera and the screen (in the case of using a lens, the diameter of the image would be one hundredth of its image focal length).
- the diameter of the image is approximately 1.5 cm, that is, for the image to be of an acceptable size, the projection distance must be large, which prevents making a manageable appliance.
- the present invention causes that, by reflecting that image one or more times (as indicated later in the drawings), the length of the camera is shortened, maintaining a large projection distance, to make the apparatus more manageable and allow it to be save easily.
- Figure 1 shows how the image of the Sun is produced in a camera obscura.
- the image (3) is produced in the background (1) of the camera.
- the image diameter is d and the projection distance is long.
- the hole (2) can have any shape, here we will assume that it is circular in diameter p (pupil), so that point A of the Sun does not project at a single point, figure 2, but that its image is a circle of diameter A ⁇ A 2 , that is, the image of point A of the Sun is blurred.
- the long projection distance in order to obtain an image with an acceptable size, for example 1.5 cm in diameter to be able to comfortably see an eclipse, the long projection distance must be 1.5 m, a very long length that prevents the construction of a marketable camera obscura.
- the present invention makes it possible to shorten that length by causing the rays of the Sun to be reflected inside the camera, as indicated in figure 3.
- the rays penetrate through the hole (1) and are reflected in the mirrors (2 and 3) to give the projected image (4), which the observer sees from the opening (5).
- the number of reflections can be any. The greater the number of reflections, the lower the height h of the camera and the more manageable and marketable the device is.
- FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of the present invention.
- the entrance hole of the Sun is (1) and has a diameter of about 2 mm and the slits through which the eyes look are (2) and (3) and have a width of about 5 mm.
- the height h can be around 25 cm to comfortably see the image and the width a can be around 18 cm to obtain 8 reflections and 9 sections (without having to use reflector elements the viewfinder should have a length greater than 2 m ), so the highest amplification obtained would be 9 and the diameter of the largest image of the Sun would be about 2 cm, enough to see a detailed eclipse of the Sun.
- the thickness g of the viewfinder would be about 7 cm to be able to see the image with both eyes at the same time.
- This 25 x 18 x 7 cm 3 box can be shaped into a book to be kept on a shelf.
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ES200400387A ES2211362B1 (en) | 2004-02-18 | 2004-02-18 | ECLIPSES AND SUN VIEWER. |
ESP200400387 | 2004-02-18 |
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GB754688A (en) * | 1953-11-23 | 1956-08-08 | John Post | Improvements in periscopes |
GB2327282A (en) * | 1998-08-27 | 1999-01-20 | Herbert Martin Lock | Sun observation device |
WO2004008224A1 (en) * | 2002-07-16 | 2004-01-22 | Light Tec | Device for observing the sun's backscattered image on a screen |
WO2004008194A1 (en) * | 2002-07-12 | 2004-01-22 | Saab Ab | Optical device |
US20040027660A1 (en) * | 2001-03-14 | 2004-02-12 | Learning Technologies, Inc. | Sunspotter solar telescope |
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US4437736A (en) * | 1979-12-26 | 1984-03-20 | Janosik Sr Daniel R | Sun viewing apparatus |
ES1006882Y (en) * | 1988-07-05 | 1989-07-16 | Sender Rovira Antonio | SIMPLIFIED PERISCOPE. |
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GB754688A (en) * | 1953-11-23 | 1956-08-08 | John Post | Improvements in periscopes |
GB2327282A (en) * | 1998-08-27 | 1999-01-20 | Herbert Martin Lock | Sun observation device |
US20040027660A1 (en) * | 2001-03-14 | 2004-02-12 | Learning Technologies, Inc. | Sunspotter solar telescope |
WO2004008194A1 (en) * | 2002-07-12 | 2004-01-22 | Saab Ab | Optical device |
WO2004008224A1 (en) * | 2002-07-16 | 2004-01-22 | Light Tec | Device for observing the sun's backscattered image on a screen |
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HANDOJO A.ET AL: "SOLAR ECLIPSE OBSERVATION: SOME SIMPLE DIVICES.", APPLIED OPTICS, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA., vol. 28, no. 20, 15 October 1989 (1989-10-15), pages 4293 - 4297, XP000071265 * |
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ES2607678A1 (en) * | 2015-10-02 | 2017-04-03 | Universidad De Extremadura | Monocular glasses to observe eclipses (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) |
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