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antilumin t1_itrcfjp wrote

I saw something very similar to this during an eclipse a few years back, but it was through the leaves of the trees. Very trippy to see a bunch of crecents of light dancing around.

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Alan_Smithee_ t1_itrgbh8 wrote

You don’t realise you’re looking at a pinhole camera until the first time you see this.

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Kyle_Eski t1_itrgicp wrote

Representation of the Double slit experiment maybe?

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Tractorhash t1_itrgz1a wrote

Next time you are in an eclipse go outside and look at the shadows cast by a tree...

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Halogen12 t1_itrmmte wrote

Replying to antilumin (#224,497)

It was August 2017 and where I live we got about 50% coverage. I brought a colander to work and was amusing staff, patients, and passersby on the sidewalk with hundreds of mini crescent suns displayed on the sidewalk.

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jeffh4 t1_itsgvss wrote

I saw a partial solar eclipse via the light filtering through the leaves of a tree. What would normally look like variations of brightness turned into overlapping pinhole cameras.

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THE_some_guy t1_itta4zo wrote

Can someone ELI5 why this happens? When there's no eclipse, light spots like this are roughly the shape of the aperture rather than the (circular) shape of the sun. Why does the shape of the hole not matter when the sun is a crescent shape?

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FacetiousInvective t1_ittya5q wrote

A nice example of the pinhole effect. It felt magical in August '99.. they were all over the ground!

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daman4567 t1_itugk4f wrote

Replying to THE_some_guy (#232,435)

It's not that the spots aren't circles, it's just that circles blend together very well and become difficult to notice while the crescent shape does not blend well.

If you have a region covered in circles of light, they blend together to look like a relatively homogenous blob of light.

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