Posted on Jun 26, 2020
APOD: 2020 June 26 - Eclipse under the Bamboo
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Thank y6ou my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Friday, June 26, 2020 entitled "Eclipse under the Bamboo."
Image: Eclipse under the Bamboo - Image Credit & Copyright Somak Raychaudhury (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics)
This image is very interesting in that somebody realized that a great view of the eclipse could be had by using the screen of bamboo leaves and observing the ground underneath.
APOD Background
"Explanation: Want to watch a solar eclipse safely? Try looking down instead of up, though you might discover you have a plethora of images to choose from. For example, during the June 21st solar eclipse this confusing display appeared under a shady bamboo grove in Pune, India. Small gaps between close knit leaves on the tall plants effectively created a network of randomly placed pinholes. Each one projected a separate image of the eclipsed Sun. The snapshot was taken close to the time of maximum eclipse in Pune when the Moon covered about 60 percent of the Sun's diameter. But an annular eclipse, the Moon in silhouette completely surrounded by a bright solar disk at maximum, could be seen along a narrow path where the Moon's dark shadow crossed central Africa, south Asia, and China."
This image title reminded me of a blues instrumental by Savoy Brown
Savoy-Brown - Waiting in the Bamboo Grove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfgFV2VAa5k
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Image: Eclipse under the Bamboo - Image Credit & Copyright Somak Raychaudhury (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics)
This image is very interesting in that somebody realized that a great view of the eclipse could be had by using the screen of bamboo leaves and observing the ground underneath.
APOD Background
"Explanation: Want to watch a solar eclipse safely? Try looking down instead of up, though you might discover you have a plethora of images to choose from. For example, during the June 21st solar eclipse this confusing display appeared under a shady bamboo grove in Pune, India. Small gaps between close knit leaves on the tall plants effectively created a network of randomly placed pinholes. Each one projected a separate image of the eclipsed Sun. The snapshot was taken close to the time of maximum eclipse in Pune when the Moon covered about 60 percent of the Sun's diameter. But an annular eclipse, the Moon in silhouette completely surrounded by a bright solar disk at maximum, could be seen along a narrow path where the Moon's dark shadow crossed central Africa, south Asia, and China."
This image title reminded me of a blues instrumental by Savoy Brown
Savoy-Brown - Waiting in the Bamboo Grove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfgFV2VAa5k
FYI LTC (Join to see) COL Mikel J. Burroughs Lt Col Charlie Brown SPC Margaret Higgins Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen CW5 Jack Cardwell SSG Michael Noll Sgt (Join to see) Col Carl Whicker SGT Denny Espinosa SPC Nancy Greene Cynthia Croft SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Maj Marty Hogan TSgt Joe C. 1SG Walter Craig PO1 Robert George PO2 (Join to see) Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D.
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