• Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    8 hours ago

    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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      4 hours 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!

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      4 hours ago

      You only see this during the partial stage of the eclipse, not during totality, which can last a long time.

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        2 hours ago

        I witnessed a partial eclipse, didn’t notice the shadow effect. I might pay attention next time…

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      7 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.

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        1 hour ago

        You can glance at the sun but don’t stare at it. Even when it’s only 1% visible, it’s putting out enough light to strain or damage your eyes.

        Though it’s fine to look at the eclipse with naked eyes when it’s total. You can’t really see the cool effect surrounding the moon during totality with the eclipse glasses on because it’s way dimmer than the sun usually is.

        Your eyes will tell you if it’s safe to look. If it’s uncomfortably bright, then you shouldn’t power through that discomfort (and that applies to things other than the sun). If it feels like looking at anything else, then it’s probably fine.

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        2 hours ago

        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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    21 hours ago

    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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      19 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.

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        11 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.

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          Once I hitched a ride on the back of a empty meat truck, so it was pitch black, some minutes in my eyes got used to the dark and started to notice a projection on the front wall and I could somewhat see what was behind the truck, even got to id car models.

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    The reason this happens is because the tiny gaps between the leaves act as lenses, like in a pinhole camera.

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      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.

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        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.

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          9 hours ago

          The diffraction effects from a pinhole camera are not what make them work.

          I didn’t say this, you did. You’re chasing your own tail.

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            If you didn’t intend to imply that, it’s on how you communicated, not how they interpreted it. The way you listed what each does implied you were saying that’s how their images worked.

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        17 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

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      19 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.

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    1 day 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)

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    19 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.