What do you do when you are caught out by a 95% lunar eclipse of the sun — you watch it as Galileo might have and as your granny did — projected onto the wall of the house through her colander!

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See the moon passing over the sun

The image is inverted but clear

Multiple images of the eclipse

Afterwards its just a colander again

But that’s not all — other shadows are temporarily weirded —

Nature taking artistic liberties during the eclipse

The camera, without a view finder, gave a image without damage to the retina

Solar Eclipse 20/03/2015 seen in Wales