Solar Eclipse
2015 partial solar eclipse
2015 partial solar eclipse in Ireland as observed with a shoebox. A camera obscura is the ancestor of the photographic camera. The Latin name means “dark chamber,” and the earliest versions consisted of small darkened rooms with light admitted through a single tiny hole. The result is an inverted image of the outside scene cast on the opposite wall.
We still had the scopes back in Hungary then. Camera obscura built out of a shoebox: