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Sunlight is always doing this. It's just that we call overlapping projections of a boring white-filled circles “dappled sunlight”.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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Only if you know the sun's size, which kind of presupposes you know its distance.
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Strictly speaking, it's not required, but I get your point.
In any case, you can evaluate the relative sizes, which is cool enough ! (⚠️ nerd alert ⚠️)
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how?
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My gut says Thales' thorem, but this needs checking.
That's why I was looking for the video
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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.
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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!
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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.
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I witnessed a partial one, with eclipse glasses. Still I didn't have the time or observational talent to notice the effect on the shadows
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Or they had a camera recording.
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You only see this during the partial stage of the eclipse, not during totality, which can last a long time.
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I witnessed a partial eclipse, didn't notice the shadow effect. I might pay attention next time...
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uncommon on earth is common in the galaxy/universe
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But the distance and relative size between our moon and star is so unique that even on a Galaxy scale that would be the number one touristic event.
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We have LED street lights and our driveway is lined with crepe myrtles. Every evening after dark, I can see the grid pattern of the individual LEDs in the shadows on our driveway. It's trippy when there's a slight breeze, and all these little "grid shadows" are moving around overlapping each other
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Woah, like an irl glitch or something? Im super intrigued
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You can make a hole with your fingers and see the patterns of very bright lights above you, stadium lights etc. It's just a vertical camera obscura. I remember the 90s solar partial eclipse really well because I was riding home from school, the leaves and even the spokes on my bike projected moons everywhere, it was completely magical.
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Best bokeh balls
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Heey, it's Elden Ring!
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Heey, it's the intro to Heroes on NBC
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Thought it was just my coffee table
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<Clears throat>
well technically thats shadow of moon multiplied "naturally". -
I think you need to turn on antialiasing in your settings
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Bubbles!
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Big if true
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This meme is too real
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u r 2 real
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Ye older Arboreal Eclipse
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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.
The reason this happens is because the tiny gaps between the leaves act as lenses, like in a pinhole camera.
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.
EDIT: Of course you can't resolve an image through diffraction. That's not how pinholes cameras work. Diffraction negatively impacts image resolution, but it absolutely happens when light passes through them. But, although lens do use refraction to resolve an image, that same process also has unintended negative effects on image resolution (spherical aberration, chromatic aberration, etc.). I didn't bring up any of that because it was ultimately a distraction from the important part: narrow gaps diffract light, lens refract light, and pinhole cameras do not work like lens.
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.
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
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.