They make lens caps ya know. They also make pinhole occluders, which is how I got my photo of it today without a magnifying lens, telescope, or special glasses.
Just a piece of plastic with a tiny hole in it, placed in front of a piece of paper. Basically a crude homemade camera obscura, while I used my phone to photo the paper it projected on.
Now don’t get me wrong, their photos are way better than mine, but still if I had such an advanced telescope, I’d try dialing in the angle in advance and just pop the lens protector back over it until the right time.