Get a solar filter To fully experience the total eclipse, you’ll need to be ... so it’ll be like taking a picture at night,” Honda told CNN. “Manually focusing would be a big help, too ...

Because it can be hard to take a great photo of the eclipse with a smartphone, it is also worth taking photos that show your surroundings. A timelapse video of a group of eclipse-watchers with the ...

but it’s perfectly possible to image the eclipsed sun by taking scissors to a spare pair of solar eclipse glasses. Cut out something much larger than the lenses on the back of your smartphone ...