dimanche 20 mai 2012

Partial Annular Solar Eclipse

Today there was an annular solar eclipse. I was too far south to see the Ring of Fire, but I got to see the sun shaped like a crescent with a couple cards with a pinhole and with my camera. 

This picture came out rather nicely, considering I couldn't use my viewfinder to set up the shot because I would burn my eyes out if looked at the sun through my 300 mm camera lens.

After getting all the pictures I wanted of the sun, I turned around and saw some interesting shadows on the wall, with upside-down crescents of light shining through the leaves. It's the same thing happening there as the pinhole I used to see the eclipse.