IMG_20170821_130504 Partial solar eclipse in the colander holes

Somebody at the Balcones park did the colander experiment to demonstrate that the partial solar eclipse was actually happening, because you couldn't tell that by the brightness of the Sun: even at its peak, when 65% of the Sun was covered, the sunlight hardly dimmed at all. But the colander holes in its shadow had crescent moon shapes -- or, to be accurate, crescent Sun. This was one of the very few occasions in life when you could utter the words "crescent Sun" and make sense. August 2017.