Sometimes when you hear or read that, “You should try this to do X,” you often think, “Yeah that won’t work.”
I am happy to report that during the August 2017 eclipse, looking at the eclipse via a colander as the light of the sun passed through the individual holes of a colander really did work – much to the amazement of the people with me at the Mitchell House.
It’s hard to believe that it has been two months already since the partial eclipse that we witnessed on Nantucket. Made even more unbelievable by the record setting warmth we seem to have been having. I was actually sweating when I planted tulip bulbs at the Mitchell House very recently.
But the image you see here is indeed the eclipse as seen through the holes of a lovely old colander we have at the Mitchell House. Not a historic collection piece but one in the Curator’s Cottage that frankly, is probably from the 1940s. I use it for teas and other small events hosted by Mitchell House that require food – outside of course! The little half-moons you see are the shadow of the eclipse – it’s sort of being used as a pinhole camera.
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