Doing an experiment during the 2023 annular eclipse

The fact that the image from a magnifying glass is just the image of the sun is so obvious and unsurprising. Yet it's never crossed my mind because the sun is "always" round.

A phenomenon that I’ve noticed during the 3 eclipses that I have witnessed is leaves on trees acting as pinhole cameras and casting thousands of images of the crescent eclipse on the ground.

I saw a full solar eclypse in Germany like 25 years ago. It was unbelivable how quick the temperatur and environment changed. Temperature dropped massivly from one moment to the next and a strong wind started out of nothing. I can only imagine how scary this had to be for people in former times when they had not idea what caused that.

When I saw this notif I thought I just missed an eclipse.

Seing the clouds imaged on the wood kinda blew my mind. Never thought of it that way

Back in 1962 or ‘63 I was working as a cowboy in North Dakota. I was herding cattle when an eclipse came through (if that’s the correct term). I wasn’t in the path of the total eclipse. The sky and the ground got darker, as though heavy low clouds had moved in, except there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The sun was shining, but it seemed to be putting off a lower level metallic light (whatever that might be). I had known we’d have an eclipse so I had brought along a couple pieces of card paper. I punched a hole in one for the lens and used the other as a projector screen. Sure enough the image of the sun was a skinny sliver. I was surprised how bright (even though much diminished) sun in the sky was, yet how little the sliver actually was the sun was round and seemed full. Another odd thing. Birds had been chirping but fell silent and crickets started making cricket clicks, as though it was nightfall. Eerie. Oh and, the cows quit making noise and nervously shuffled around. I had been in the process of moving them to a new pasture and they were waiting for me to drag open a fence so they could be moved. My horse, which was a normally skittish Arabian mare seemed apprehensive but waiting for me to give her directions (which, of course, I did.) she and I had been through a lot together, flooding, heavy hail storms (we found shelter in a big culvert) and we one day found ourselves on the edge of a tornado that passed through. It was chaotic, but we were unscathed. She trusted me. I could always calm her, so I trusted her.

Cody's Lab is how science education should be done.

if my suspicions are correct i would like to say congatz............ looking foward to the new cast member later this year XD

Cody, if you can still find one, the old projection big-screen TVs had a Fresnel lens (pronounced fre-nel or fray-nel) paired with a lenticular lens to concentrate the light from the projection tubes off the internal mirror into a specific viewing field typically shaped like an oval cone. I have one that I salvaged from one of those old TVs that someone had set out on the curb. There's a YouTuber that has one mounted in a wooden frame so he can manipulate the angle easily and melts things with the concentrated sunlight. It's an excellent demonstration of the amount of energy that hits a given area of the planet.

TONIGHT WE STEAL THE MOOOOOONNNNN

glad to see Cody still around! i used to watch ya every day for like a year back in like 2016 or something like that!

I like to see that Cody's still making videos, I always learn something new from them, glad that I'm still able to watch your videos whenever you post a new one.

Magnifying lenses are fascinating. Another interesting feature of a magnifying lense is that it can't heat things hotter than the temperature of the source light. Even with an infinite sized lense.

As happy as I always am to see Cody post, To have a camera (wo)man again is amazing. I hope it is what I think. I'm happy Cody has continued to create after every turmoil.

I always absolutely love seeing another Cody's Lab video :)

In 2017, I noticed a tree having thousands of tiny gaps between the leaves, casting thousands of tiny eclipses on the ground. I'm off to Nazas in April.

Glad to see a video from you, Hope life's doing you well these days Cody.

It's amazing realising everything is an image of the Sun. Every glimmer, every object, everything you see with sunlight is the sun's image.

You bring so much joy to my life Cody. Thank you for everything you do

Photo film will work there, just focus on a sheet, and it will decompose to silver rapidly, no developing needed.