In 2020 there were two solar eclipses. One was on June 21st, the summer solstice, an annular eclipse. Somak Raychaudhury took a picture showing dozens of images of the partial eclipse in Pune, India. The images are on the ground in a bamboo grove.
The leaves of the bamboo let sunlight through as they formed a set of pinholes. Each little gap projected an image of the eclipsing Sun. If Pune had been along the path of totality, the ground would have been full of images of bright rings. An annular eclipse occurs when the new Moon doesn't completely block the Sun's disk, leaving a ring, often called the “ring of fire”.
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