Solar Eclipse

A black-and-white photo of a partial solar eclipse projected onto a paper plate

photographer: Nathan Acks
date: 2017-08-21

The 2017 solar eclipse as seen from Denver, near the eclipse maxima. This is actually a picture of an image of the Sun (and the Moon, really, but you can’t see that) projected on a paper plate using a pinhole setup devised by John Michael Watkins.