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Alan_Smithee_ t1_itrgbh8 wrote
You don’t realise you’re looking at a pinhole camera until the first time you see this.
Tractorhash t1_itrgz1a wrote
Next time you are in an eclipse go outside and look at the shadows cast by a tree...
yoloswagbot191 t1_itrm9hl wrote
I experienced this also. Super trippy!
Halogen12 t1_itrmmte wrote
It was August 2017 and where I live we got about 50% coverage. I brought a colander to work and was amusing staff, patients, and passersby on the sidewalk with hundreds of mini crescent suns displayed on the sidewalk.
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antilumin t1_itrusnb wrote
Yep, that was it. I lived in Oregon at the time and had almost 100% coverage.
Ever seen sun shadow snakes?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/06/21/people-in-asia-just-saw-weird-shadow-snakes-on-the-ground-during-an-eclipse-heres-why/
jeffh4 t1_itsgvss wrote
I saw a partial solar eclipse via the light filtering through the leaves of a tree. What would normally look like variations of brightness turned into overlapping pinhole cameras.
speccycuntfuck t1_itsztkt wrote
Nah it’s just a pinhole camera effect
THE_some_guy t1_itta4zo wrote
Can someone ELI5 why this happens? When there's no eclipse, light spots like this are roughly the shape of the aperture rather than the (circular) shape of the sun. Why does the shape of the hole not matter when the sun is a crescent shape?
poodlebutt76 t1_itte23d wrote
When the hole/aperture is small enough, it acts like a lens/camera obscura, rather than just a plain opening letting the light through.
spacegardener t1_ittstq2 wrote
Depends on the size of the aperture and its distance from the screen. But people just don't notice that when the shapes are just ellipses.
FacetiousInvective t1_ittya5q wrote
A nice example of the pinhole effect. It felt magical in August '99.. they were all over the ground!
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daman4567 t1_itugk4f wrote
It's not that the spots aren't circles, it's just that circles blend together very well and become difficult to notice while the crescent shape does not blend well.
If you have a region covered in circles of light, they blend together to look like a relatively homogenous blob of light.
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