A Chip in the Edge
Jun. 10th, 2021 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerHaving not bothered to stay up late for the lunar eclipse last month, when I heard there’d be a solar eclipse with at least a bit of it visible from where I live I might have had a bit more determination to try and observe it. My thoughts did turn to the eclipse glasses I bought back in 2017 for an eclipse sufficiently partial in my area to begin to affect the daylight outside; however, I also remembered how I’d left those glasses in a cabinet at work. Where I’d tried projecting eclipses through binoculars onto cards before I was now more concerned about the effect of the sunlight pouring through them; fortunately, I still have a stack of index cards and a quantity of pins extracted from shirts.
With a simple pinhole viewer prepared, I saw the sun was hitting my closed drapes first thing this morning; on opening them I realised it was shining through a great many leaves. I went ahead and headed outside, and despite emerging on the opposite side of my place from where the sun was rising I did see a sunny patch a ways up the lane. Hurrying that way, I managed to get the two cards in proper alignment, and saw the little disc of light had a circular chip out of it at one side. It wasn’t much of an eclipse from where I live at the moment I managed to see it, but it was something seen to back up the reproduced images available later.
With a simple pinhole viewer prepared, I saw the sun was hitting my closed drapes first thing this morning; on opening them I realised it was shining through a great many leaves. I went ahead and headed outside, and despite emerging on the opposite side of my place from where the sun was rising I did see a sunny patch a ways up the lane. Hurrying that way, I managed to get the two cards in proper alignment, and saw the little disc of light had a circular chip out of it at one side. It wasn’t much of an eclipse from where I live at the moment I managed to see it, but it was something seen to back up the reproduced images available later.