Posted on 10/15/2023 12:34:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Yes, but can your tree do this? If you look closely at the ground in the featured image, you will see many images of yesterday's solar eclipse -- created by a tree. Gaps between tree leaves act like pinhole lenses and each create a small image of the partially eclipsed Sun visible in the other direction. The image was taken in Burleson, Texas, USA. Yesterday, people across the Americas were treated to a partial eclipse of the Sun, when the Moon moves in front of part of the Sun. People in a narrow band of Earth were treated to an annular eclipse, also called a ring-of-fire eclipse, when the Moon becomes completely engulfed by the Sun and sunlight streams around all of the Moon's edges. In answer to the lede question, your tree not only can do this, but will do it every time that a visible solar eclipse passes overhead. Next April 8, a deeper, total solar eclipse will move across North America.
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I’ve seen eucalyptus trees.......
I have pics like that (somewhere) of the full eclipse in 2017 (I think). It was very cool.
I have seen sidewalks. I was not looking at the right time.
I do, too. That’s the first time I ever saw it, and I was kind of amazed.
I’ve never seen the sky turn that color, or the atmosphere seem so odd. It wasn’t even like any dawn or twilight I’ve ever seen.
That’s so cool! Little tiny eclipses.
Heh. For a minute on Saturday, I was wondering “Hey! Why’s it looking like dusk, rather than later morning?” Then it hit me: “Duh, numbskull, there’s an eclipse!”
As an aside, my daughter went to Crater Lake, Oregon to see the eclipse yesterday. She said the coolest thing was that the lake had a pinhole reflection of the eclipse on the surface of the lake. (near the middle of the photo below)
Nice photo!
My daughter and I were standing on our driveway at the time of the eclipse and saw this very thing coming from our 35 year old live oak. It was spectacular. Wish I had taken a picture.
Thanks. She said it was very cloudy, but there were breaks in the clouds when they could still observe it. She is happy she got to see this one. She will be on her honeymoon next April when the one near us will occur. I think that’s next April, right?
I was well aware of this phenomenon and took this picture at the maximum of the eclipse.
Neat photo!
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