It happened once more, as predicted by Pythagoras and Galileo’s Music of the Spheres. Our Moon passed in front of our Sun, just far enough this time that it didn’t quite hide it all the way to its borders. The Sun’s Corona was not revealed but created what has been called a ring of fire.

I have had the pleasure to watch several solar eclipses in my life, including total ones and believe me: nothing matches a total solar eclipse! Next best to me are annular eclipses like the one we just saw across the American continent. I got to see one as a child and I remember very well watching it with a solar filter on my telescope.

Costa Rica, where I live, was not quite in the best place to see the ring. We just got a more darkened than usual partial eclipse. What to do? I decided to photograph the light spots formed by tree leaves that are actually a pinhole-camera like projection of the Sun. Instead of being round they look like crescent moons during a partial solar eclipse.

Yes, I also got a photo of the Sun when clouds were moving in and I was able to make a photo without filters.

Have you seen the little crescents on the ground before?