Was just out watching the eclipse. Way cool
Haven't seen one of those in a coon's age. It was nearly total, with about 80% of the sun's disc obscured. Perfect time (5:30-7:50PM), perfect Sandy Eggo weather (cloudless, sunny, 65F, no mist or marine layer). Did both the pinhole trick and the mirror trick, both worked. If we'd been in San Francisco we would have seen a perfect bullseye, but all things considered I'd rather be here.
My kids were impressed, so were the neighbors. Most of them had never heard of a pinhole camera, most didn't know an eclipse was coming (neither did I until I happened to catch a news broadcast this morning). Now they think I'm a genius or a wizard or something, because I bounced a mirror beam off a tall house at the end of our street and got a perfect image of the sun with a big bite out of it. (STOP signs work even better cuz they're so reflective). Yeah, a lot of intellectual activity going on there, yuh get out duh mirror and yuh points it. Also got out a magnifying glass and set a piece of newspaper on fire for the kids, which made eyes bug out.
Don't tell me I'm the ONLY one who has been doing that since age 8. Come ON.
(I still refer to magnifying glasses in the office, as "ant burners".)
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Originally Posted by logroller
