Sunday, January 17, 2010

Eclipse!

A SOLAR one!

Using SCIENCE I was able to see what the sun looked like without significantly burning my eyes.



See that in the middle of the shadow? It's the sun, with a good half of it covered from the right top.



Now see? The sun is almost completely blocked.

I also took a bunch of pictures with my real camera directly at the sun, with a dozen or so improvised filters until I found one pinhole / lens setting combination that worked out well, and by "well" I mean at least like this:


Neat, huh?

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