{"id":113,"date":"2010-01-15T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guganeshan.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2010-01-16T00:10:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T18:40:28","slug":"tree-leaves-becoming-pinhole-cameras-during-the-annular-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guganeshan.com\/blog\/tree-leaves-becoming-pinhole-cameras-during-the-annular-solar-eclipse.html","title":{"rendered":"Tree leaves becoming &#8220;pinhole cameras&#8221; during the Annular Solar Eclipse."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/guganeshan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/annular-solar-eclipse.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"annular solar eclipse\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" align=\"left\" \/> The longest, annular (like a ring) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_eclipse\" target=\"_blank\">Solar Eclipse<\/a> of the millennium happened today (15th January 2010).<\/p>\n<p>When the annular eclipse was at its peak in the region from where I was watching it (Nugegoda, Sri Lanka), I saw some peculiar shadows on the ground. It occurred to me only after several seconds that they are caused by the Solar Eclipse!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When the sun&#8217;s rays hit the ground passing through small gaps between tree leaves, they create the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pinhole_camera\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pinhole Camera<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; affect. These are actually <strong>small inverted images of the sun projected on the ground.<\/strong> Refer the Wikipedia article for more information about the Pinhole Camera: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pinhole_camera\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pinhole_camera\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pinhole_camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Checkout these pictures I took at that time:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guganeshan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/solar-eclipse-2010-pattern-in-shadows-from-a-tree-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/guganeshan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/solar-eclipse-2010-pattern-in-shadows-from-a-tree-1_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Annular Solar Eclipse 2010 pinhole effect in shadows from a tree\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guganeshan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/solar-eclipse-2010-pattern-in-shadows-from-a-tree-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/guganeshan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/solar-eclipse-2010-pattern-in-shadows-from-a-tree-2_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Annular Solar Eclipse 2010 pinhole effect in shadows from a tree\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful pattern to watch during the dreamy-darkness of the eclipse. The reduced temperature due to the eclipse, felt good on the skin too <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.i1.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/i\/mesg\/emoticons7\/1.gif\" alt=\"Happy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Get to know when future solar and lunar eclipses would happen from this <strong>NASA eclipse website<\/strong>: <a title=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/eclipse.html\" href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/eclipse.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/eclipse.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest, annular (like a ring) Solar Eclipse of the millennium happened today (15th January 2010). When the annular eclipse was at its peak in the region from where I was watching it (Nugegoda, Sri Lanka), I saw some peculiar shadows on the ground. 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