2021-06-10 PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE To catch the partial solar eclipse at noon today, a colleague at work reminded me to use a skimmer (a spoon with lots of tiny holes), to project the sun on a clean surface, for example good quality paper. skimmer.jpg[1] That will not work well when there are many clouds. What _does_ work, is taking a picture with a smartphone: eclipse-big.jpg[2] And zoom in eclipse.jpg[3] [1] gopher://gopher.hillenius.net/I/images/skimmer.jpg [2] gopher://gopher.hillenius.net/I/images/eclipse-big.jpg [3] gopher://gopher.hillenius.net/I/images/eclipse.jpg