an eclipse viewer in Florida (temporarily modified plate camera)
Toronto. We were fortunate this time that the eclipse was almost a total eclipse of the sun. On the 9th, I showed the inventive side of our journal co-editor. Here we see an equally inventive writer, David Kenny down in Florida where the eclipse path covered about half the sun.
David writes (speaking of his viewer compared to our co-editor’s), “Well… my setup was much, much simpler. I took the now restored 1897 Vive, stuck a pinhole on the front and a piece of cardboard where the plates go and voila, a 3mm image of the 50% coverage we had here in Florida. Nice feature that the Vive had a flip open top. Though the image was clear, the pic I took with my iPhone wasn’t, but I included it as proof of concept… An engineer and a neurophysiologist went into a bar…”
