Partial Solar Eclipse

To catch the partial solar eclipse at noon today, a colleague at work reminded me to use a skimmer (a spoon with lots of tiny holes), to project the sun on a clean surface, for example good quality paper.

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That will not work well when there are many clouds.

What does work, is taking a picture with a smartphone:

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And zoom in

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