SciShow Space: Why Solar Eclipses Create Those Crescent-Shaped Lights

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Everyone is watching the sky during a solar eclipse, but but if you look down, you'll catch another kind of light show. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE2001-2100.html Pinhole cameras: http://inside.mines.edu/~mmyoung/PHCamera.pdf http://www.amazingcameraobscura.co.uk/howitworks.htm http://practicalphysics.org/pinhole-camera-lens-camera.html http://www.wesjones.com/pinhole.htm https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/make-pinhole-projector.html http://eclipse.illinois.edu/2017eclipse.html https://eclipse.aas.org/eclipse-america/eclipse-experience https://cg-masters.com/nicks-rants-and-raves/effect-of-solar-eclipse-on-shadow-quality/ http://www.schoolphysics.co.uk/age11-14/Light/text/Shadows/index.html https://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/astro/shadows.htm https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/139077/what-is-this-light-pattern-caused-by-led-matrix-street-light Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Total_solar_eclipse,_La_Silla_Observatory,_2019.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/crescent-highlights-and-shadows-from-eclipse-gm836818212-136187651 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/tree-set-realistic-vector-illustration-gm689550818-127018379 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IMG_1650_zonsverduistering_Malta.JPG https://www.flickr.com/photos/mjambon/7424199900/ https://images.nasa.gov/details-jsc2017m000793_2017Eclipse_4K_YT.html


Click here to view video on YouTube.