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Originally Posted by John Isbell View Post
We learned something unexpected on campus today: during an eclipse, the shadows of leaves on the ground all look like little moons pointing the same way. It's quite weird. A bit late, but I thought worth noting.
Yes, I saw them on the park path today, under the trees. A partial eclipse here, so the images like crescent moons, but they are images of the sun, with the shadow of the moon taking a bite out. See here.

My neighbor had a pinhole camera he made out of a shoe box & we could see the image of the eclipse in that (in addition to using medically approved dark glasses).

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