Saturday 21 March 2015

The eclipse and me

No special glasses. No pinhole camera (yes. I know you can make your own, but you aren't me, and I can't). But hang on....the radio tells me you can do something clever with a colander. That's right. Let the sun shine though a colander, and voila! An eclipse.

Don't you believe it. What you see (what I saw) when doing this is the sun's  reflection of....a colander. Who would have  thought it? Not really interesting, even for anyone with a thing for colanders. So...

Dear reader, I looked up. That's what I did. I know you're not supposed to, but I only did it for a nanosecond, two or three times, and I saw the eclipse. And it was quite interesting. And then I drove off to visit the horse (who hasn't been the same since I gave him some bits of chocolate brownie, and he went on a kind of sugar high for fifteen minutes), but he wasn't at all interested in the eclipse ("have I seem the what? No. I just need more of that chocolate thingy"). Neither was anyone else.

But I saw it. Did you?

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  1. Yes, I did, but wasn't impressed. I am preparing a post about it as we speak (or, rather, as I type).

    I would have never thought of looking at it through a colander! (No special glasses or pinhole camera for me, either.)

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    1. I was very glad to have seen it, albeit briefly!

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  2. I tried the colander too. How were we persuaded that it could possibly work? My next door neighbour took a picture off the wall and reflected the sun from the picture to a white card. I'm told it worked perfectly.

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  3. The only thing that got a good view of it here were the clouds (from above).

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    1. What a shame. Better luck in...2090, isn't it?

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  4. I am turning green with envy. I feel deprived and more than a little annoyed as an hour after the eclipse finished the sun came out and shone all day. The collander business has me baffled as I would have thought the holes too big.
    Horses only have small tummies. As children we used to feed them a handful of sugar beet, it livened them up a treat.

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    1. You would no doubt have taken a brilliant photo, Adrian, with one of your posh lenses!

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  5. It was totally cloudy here and it didn't even seem to go any darker either! Disappointing.

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  6. The sun disappeared behind the clouds before the eclipse and re-appeared some time afterwards. C'est la vie. Life seems to be just the same regardless.

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