Doing an experiment during the 2023 annular eclipse

[volundrfrey]

The fact that the image from a magnifying glass is just the image of the sun is so obvious and unsurprising. Yet it's never crossed my mind because the sun is "always" round.

[BigJohn]

A phenomenon that I’ve noticed during the 3 eclipses that I have witnessed is leaves on trees acting as pinhole cameras and casting thousands of images of the crescent eclipse on the ground.

[rogergadley]

Back in 1962 or ‘63 I was working as a cowboy in North Dakota. I was herding cattle when an eclipse came through (if that’s the correct term). I wasn’t in the path of the total eclipse. The sky and the ground got darker, as though heavy low clouds had moved in, except there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The sun was shining, but it seemed to be putting off a lower level metallic light (whatever that might be). I had known we’d have an eclipse so I had brought along a couple pieces of card paper. I punched a hole in one for the lens and used the other as a projector screen. Sure enough the image of the sun was a skinny sliver. I was surprised how bright (even though much diminished) sun in the sky was, yet how little the sliver actually was the sun was round and seemed full. Another odd thing. Birds had been chirping but fell silent and crickets started making cricket clicks, as though it was nightfall. Eerie.
Oh and, the cows quit making noise and nervously shuffled around. I had been in the process of moving them to a new pasture and they were waiting for me to drag open a fence so they could be moved. My horse, which was a normally skittish Arabian mare seemed apprehensive but waiting for me to give her directions (which, of course, I did.) she and I had been through a lot together, flooding, heavy hail storms (we found shelter in a big culvert) and we one day found ourselves on the edge of a tornado that passed through. It was chaotic, but we were unscathed. She trusted me. I could always calm her, so I trusted her.

[torbjrngeorgsen]

Seing the clouds imaged on the wood kinda blew my mind. Never thought of it that way

[TotalyRandomUsername]

I saw a full solar eclypse in Germany like 25 years ago. It was unbelivable how quick the temperatur and environment changed. Temperature dropped massivly from one moment to the next and a strong wind started out of nothing. I can only imagine how scary this had to be for people in former times when they had not idea what caused that.

[Sam_Sam]

When I saw this notif I thought I just missed an eclipse.

[pnadk]

Cody's Lab is how science education should be done.

[tylermccleary]

glad to see Cody still around! i used to watch ya every day for like a year back in like 2016 or something like that!

[Korbino]

I like to see that Cody's still making videos, I always learn something new from them, glad that I'm still able to watch your videos whenever you post a new one.

[_Piers_]

In the late 90's we had a pretty good eclipse in the UK. The thing that suprised me the most were the shadows cast by trees - the bright spots as the light twinkelled through the wind blown leaves were all cresent shaped, hundreds of litte cresents dancing accross the floor with the breeze.
It was a really magical effect and a great day.

[dionh]

Cody, if you can still find one, the old projection big-screen TVs had a Fresnel lens (pronounced fre-nel or fray-nel) paired with a lenticular lens to concentrate the light from the projection tubes off the internal mirror into a specific viewing field typically shaped like an oval cone. I have one that I salvaged from one of those old TVs that someone had set out on the curb. There's a YouTuber that has one mounted in a wooden frame so he can manipulate the angle easily and melts things with the concentrated sunlight. It's an excellent demonstration of the amount of energy that hits a given area of the planet.

[handpancakeman]

I always absolutely love seeing another Cody's Lab video :)

[NineK]

Glad to see a video from you, Hope life's doing you well these days Cody.

[VPCh.]

Magnifying lenses are fascinating.
Another interesting feature of a magnifying lense is that it can't heat things hotter than the temperature of the source light. Even with an infinite sized lense.

[nupjcht]

You bring so much joy to my life Cody. Thank you for everything you do

[tnd-Gmr]

if my suspicions are correct i would like to say looking foward to the new cast member later this year XD

[jhnf_uk]

I remember, way back in 1999, when there was a total eclipse happened over the southern part of England, I lived a bit further north so only got a partial eclipse, but still quite a significant one, that the light changed where any point of light reflected from the sun formed crescent shapes. Even reflections off glass or other shiny surfaces seemed to take on a curved appearance. The light was also quite subdued due to the lessening of the light available. A very surreal experience.

[LordProtectorPepper]

Yayyy more Cody, it's so nice to see so many genuine smiles in all your videos again. Never stopped loving the videos but I did miss this kind of excitement and these short lil videos. Love the huge projects but 5 minutes of you nerding out is just as entertaining

[tylerjacobs]

Cody's lab is by far my favorite channel to watch on Youtube. I always get excited when I see that Cody releases a new upload. My favorite thing to watch is his chemistry related videos. A big part of why i've been a Chem major has been due to the fact that I watched his videos when I was younger. Cody is an exceptional scientist and I look forward in watching his future videos.

[dappermanphoto]

As happy as I always am to see Cody post, To have a camera (wo)man again is amazing. I hope it is what I think. I'm happy Cody has continued to create after every turmoil.