• tipicaldik@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We have LED street lights and our driveway is lined with crepe myrtles. Every evening after dark, I can see the grid pattern of the individual LEDs in the shadows on our driveway. It’s trippy when there’s a slight breeze, and all these little “grid shadows” are moving around overlapping each other

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        You can make a hole with your fingers and see the patterns of very bright lights above you, stadium lights etc. It’s just a vertical camera obscura. I remember the 90s solar partial eclipse really well because I was riding home from school, the leaves and even the spokes on my bike projected moons everywhere, it was completely magical.

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          22 hours ago

          I watched the one in the late 2010s through the hole in my transit pass lol

          Had glasses and travelled to totality for the last one. It was incredible. Highly tempted to try to make it to europe for the next one