please empty your brain below

I'll be there & I'm dragging the kids along too. They're lucky to have had the chance to see 2 total eclipses already and the eldest is only 10.

Isn't it strange how the media seems to have passed this one by?

Of course, The Sun can never eclipse their 1999 front page: "The Sun"

Now where did I put those viewing glasses they gave away for free.....

Alternatively, you could go outside with a Chuppa Chup, hold it at arm's length with the round bit silhouetted against the Sun: thus blotting it out and saving on the fare to the Orkneys and Iceland.

One of the cheapest and safest ways to view a solar eclipse (provided you didn't a get a free pair of mylar glasses in some magazine or newspaper) is to get two notecards or similar material, poke a small hole in one card, hold the card with the hole toward the sun, hold the second card a few inches behind the first, and the sun will project its image through the hole in the first card. Low tech, but it works.

No real comment, but I just wanted to slip the word Orkadian in again...that's twice in one week!

Poor old Cameron, he's going to miss it.

As possibly the only person here who has met Tony's children (apart from Tony, of course), I can exclusively reveal that they would rather eat a Mr Whippy ice cream than watch an eclipse. "Please, daddy - no more eclipses for a while," I heard one begging just the other day.

Now - why does a pinhole focus an image? Answer *that* one of you brainy types.

Its something to do with the diffraction of light. light photons travelling in waves bend round corners....Urrr...A Level physics was a long time ago.

Why be brainy when we've got the internet: Pinhole Theorey

Pity I got it wrong though. You can always rely on Jeeves to help you out!

It's because you have the smallest hole possible, which means a superlong depth of field, and therefore no focussing required. Even if focussing was required with a normal lens, you'd stick it on the lowest f-stop you could find (think f/64, and focus on infinite.

And because the sun is concievably the brightest light we're likely to find, it doesn't matter that you are using such a small apeture.

The benefits of being a photography student...











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