It’s uncanny and special for someone to be looking the other way during an eclipse.
It’s so short and a rare enough even that would make earth a tourist hotspot for extraterrestrials if there ever was interplanetary tourism.
I c it!
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Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You only see this during the partial stage of the eclipse, not during totality, which can last a long time.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 51 minutes ago
It’s uncanny and special for someone to be looking the other way during an eclipse.
During the two minutes of totality I tried really hard to take in as much as I possibly could. The light was very weird the entire time and because I wasn’t looking at the sun and moon when it happened, I saw the weird wavey shadow things as totality ended. Absolutely incredible experience and I highly recommend everyone experience it at least once in their life!
InputZero@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Unless it was an annular eclipse, or it was a total eclipse and they weren’t in the path of totality. Then this is all they would see. Regardless without eclipse glasses you shouldn’t look at either eclipse at all.
Hathaway@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Or they had a camera recording.
Triumph@fedia.io 22 hours ago
The reason this happens is because the tiny gaps between the leaves act as lenses, like in a pinhole camera.
Wolf314159@startrek.website 17 hours ago
A pinhole camera has no lens. The effect here is like a pinhole camera, but a pinhole camera is nothing at all like a lens. Pinholes diffract light. Lens refract light.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 11 hours ago
Pinholes diffract light.
The diffraction effects from a pinhole camera are not what make them work. In fact, diffraction makes the photographs worse than they otherwise would be. The pinhole makes an effective aperture for photography because it’s small size produces small circles of confusion on the film plane. Ideally, you would make the hole as small as possible, but beyond a certain (small) size, defraction becomes the dominant source of blurring. So the size of the pinhole should be chosen to yield the best balance between geometric blur and diffraction blur.
The diffraction is merely a limit to the smallness of the aperture, and not what creates the image.
Dasus@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yea, but you could achieve this by placing a circle of cardboard in the middle or a ring that you attach to your lens.
I don’t remember the guy but YT shorts I’ve seen a guy testing all sorts of different shapes and filters in front of his lenses or even just in front of his sensor without a lens.
Can’t recall who.
Anyhow
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
Our window blinds at school had tiny holes in them for the strings to go through and they had the exact same effect. You could see the eclipse projected once the tables.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
Sunlight is always doing this. It’s just that we call overlapping projections of a boring white-filled circles “dappled sunlight”.
ameancow@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Additionally, if you can make sunlight shine through a tiny hole that is somewhat level with the ground into a dark room or box, onto a flat, white surface, you can often see a projection of the world outside if the sun is hitting everything just right, the image will be upside-down and reversed, but often in full color like a video image.
Naturally occuring camera obscura must have freaked people the fuck out in olden times.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
in the house i grew up in, when the blinds were down in my window i would have a camera obscura for like half an hour each day. it made sick days more tolerable.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
You can actually use this, or more generally the shadow of a tree on any sunny day to calculate the distance to the sun !
(Can’t seem to find the video demonstrating it, but I have a feeling it’s from Physics Girl or Up And Atom on youtube)
Wolf314159@startrek.website 17 hours ago
The ratio of the size of the image to the distance from the pinhole is the same as the ratio of the size of the sun to the distance to the sun.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 11 hours ago
Only if you know the sun’s size, which kind of presupposes you know its distance.
Zkuld@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
how?
mEEGal@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
My gut says Thales’ thorem, but this needs checking.
That’s why I was looking for the video
tdawg@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Thought it was just my coffee table
Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Bubbles!
MasterOKhan@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Best bokeh balls
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Heey, it’s Elden Ring!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Heey, it’s the intro to Heroes on NBC
justlemmyin@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
<Clears throat> well technically thats shadow of moon multiplied “naturally”.
Sxan@piefed.zip 15 hours ago
It’s þe closest þing to being in drugs, wiþout being in drugs, I’ve ever experienced. It gets really surreal in a way hard to explain.
webp@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
Big if true
JoShmoe@ani.social 19 hours ago
This meme is too real
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
u r 2 real
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Picture I took in Texas during the eclipse
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