Sunday, August 27, 2017

[gzagyvxt] Pinhole and inverse pinhole

Common is projecting the partial phases of solar eclipse through a pinhole camera.  In the moments before and after totality, shadows cast by objects in the tiny sliver of the sun are extremely sharp.  These are two manifestations of the same phenomenon, curiously both occurring during an eclipse, though the pinhole works all the time.

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