The "right" way to do it, is to put something big at the L1 Lagrange Point. That is permanently between Earth and the sun, and you'd see it as a black dot at t

The "right" way to do it, is to put something big at the L1 Lagrange Point. That is permanently between Earth and the sun, and you'd see it as a black dot at the center of the Sun. Downside is it needs to be real big. 2000 km, according to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade