Friday, January 15, 2010

Annular Eclipse of the Sun!

Jan 15th 2010. It was really exciting to be right in the path of the annular eclipse today!! Awesome experience. The temperature dropped a lot as the moon went infront of the sun. The school all came out onto the field to enjoy the experience.

We observed the sun light coming through leaves of trees, through a holey spatula and also through a straw hat!

Enjoy the pictures!
ISU Students on the School Field

Through a spatula (the holes act like a mini pinhole camera)
Through a sunhat (the holes in the hat act like mini pinhole cameras)
Through leaves of a tree (see the moon shapes projected onto the wall)

This was my pinhole camera - a poster tube balanced on my music stand

Through a pinhole camera (this was as the moon was moving away)



4 comments:

Unknown said...

Wow! amazing pictures. lovely to see the Sun at all, in fact!

DSP said...

That's ace! I particularly like the straw hat one :-)

Reminds me of the the Far Side cartoon of a what a fly sees before being swatted, from the view of a compound eye..

Ogonya Emmanuel said...
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Ogonya Emmanuel said...

It was really an exciting viewing although older people were telling us all sorts of strange and scary things about the phenomenon.
Well we know what it is, no worries. Experts says a similar one (as long as this) will occur in 1000 years, let's wait and see...in 3010.