Partial Eclipse

[den]

Today Antarctica was treated to a full annular eclipse. Up this end of the world we got a partial eclipse. As the time approached I wandered into the shed to look for something I could use as a pin-hole camera. The shed is full of things that would be perfect, apart from the fact that adding a pin-hole to the item would bugger it. I worked my way to the end of the shed without finding anything disposable, then I saw it: projected onto the concrete was a tiny 5mm diametre eclipse. The light was coming through a crack in the iron cladding.

I looked up

When the shed was built in the early 50s it was a grain store. The grain attracted rats, and the owner decided to dispose of the rats by shooting at them with a .22 rifle. There was a large number of holes in the roof of the shed. And not just .22 holes, I think he also had a 410 shotgun.


But he was a poor shot


I shut the main doors of the shed and, armed with a can of Raid to show up the light beams, went looking for eclipses. And I found them! I was walking around a 2600m^3 pin-hole camera.

Eclipse on the bonnet of a worker's car.


Car bonnet eclipse with clouds.


Eclipses on plaster board


The top plasterboard eclipse with clouds


Eclipse on work bench




Eclipse on white card

Comments

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Bonzer! Glad you got to enjoy it multi-fold!

Have the best

-=Kiyoshi

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

That is just awesome.

[tropism.livejournal.com]

What's really cool-freaky is when you're outside during an eclipse that covers a significant amount of the sun's disc; the sky turns indigo and the sun-dappled shadows under the trees become crescent-dappled. It's both disconcerting and awesome.

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

cool! i didn't even know this was occuring!

[beki.livejournal.com]

Way cool!

[kayre]

In my pre-digital-camera days, I got spectacular shots of an eclipse where light peeked through the leaves of a tree and landed on a sidewalk. Very cool. :)

[kamau-d-lyon.livejournal.com]

Nice. There was some interesting contrast in the various surfaces you got the shots off from. Great photos from a number of perspectives.

[frith]

Win! X-D An auspicious way to usher in the Year of the Rat.

[trishtrash.livejournal.com]

Wow, what a novel way to view an amazing event. I love the workbench eclipse! The big gear-wheel imprint (or whatever it was) beside it, mimics the shapes nicely.

(here via a link on ungulata's journal)

[chezmax]

I remember one (the last?) total solar eclipse we had here, in about 1993 or '94. Outside looked like I was wearing sunglasses. It was totally weird because it didn't have the strange lightbending properties of sunset/sunrise... just.. everything was darker. Not as dark as twilight..

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

You get a similar effect if the sun is shining through a tree with lots and lots of leaves. All the dapples of sunlight become mini-eclipses.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

There wasn't enough eclipse to cause the eclipse shadows or darken the landscape.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Not enough disc coverage to cause that. I checked outside at the time; I wanted a photo of it.

[chezmax]

I'm looking forward to the total lunar eclipse in two weeks :)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Never! Dubbo in 2012.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah well ---I remember them days of the shootins

[tenoreleven.livejournal.com]

Memories live on in the taxidermist's blog..... (http://bob-basset.livejournal.com/73561.html) Happy Year of the Rat !

....and don't ask how I got here --rats have ways, you know....
:)