1 yr. ago • 97%

I'm not sure what caused this cool eclipse reflection

Maybe my phone case making a pinhole for light somehow?

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Your camera lens is made of several pieces of glass. The glass is designed to admit as much light as possible on to the sensor, but at each layer, a small amount is reflected.

If the source light is bright enough, especially in comparison to the background, these reflections bounce around a bunch and eventually hit the sensor. Normally, any reflections are very faint and get washed out by the rest of the image, but the sun is like 1000x brighter than the sky, so even a weak reflection shows up.

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Here's another neat one:

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Ooh, that's a classic! An inevitable happy accident on your behalf.
Shadows under tree canopies also create the same effect, a lot of little "pinhole cameras" between leaves.

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- I love the tree shadow ones. So trippy.
  
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- I drilled a hole in a piece of scrap wood I had in my shop so my wife and I could observe it the only way we could with what we had on hand. Still cool as hell to see that in any form IRL.
  
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I saw that on the ground during a solar eclipse under a tree

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- Any colander/pasta strainer with round holes works wonders for this. One hundred little eclipses cast on the ground--it's like a free pinhole camera!
  
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  My husband was telling me that sometimes it lines up just right through trees and you'll get thousands of little eclipses lol. Must be nice to have lots of trees. Stupid desert :(
  
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Lens flare

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What's with all the eclipse posts on the socials today? Did I miss something?

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- The eclipse
  
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  What eclipse?
  
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- I mostly heard about it from TikTok tbh. Been hearing about it all month but I also follow a lot of space channels on there so that'd be why lol
  
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Cool!

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