# Solar eclipse 2024

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**Created:** [April 8, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/solar-eclipse-2024/398337 "2024-04-08T19:03:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![AngryGumball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/angrygumball/32/683872_2.png) [@AngryGumball](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AngryGumball)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/solar-eclipse-2024/398337/21 "2024-04-09T00:17:26Z")

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“But we have solar eclipse at home…”

Solar Eclipse at home: pinhole camera, with very partial coverage.

What we had in CA.

 ![20240408_112000](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/0/0/7/0072cdcc5dd9f423883c80998ae296a87f918bf2.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![TheThrowingGnome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/thethrowinggnome/32/14231_2.png) [@TheThrowingGnome](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/TheThrowingGnome)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/solar-eclipse-2024/398337/22 "2024-04-09T00:24:36Z")

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Isn’t wild how the shadows move like water during totality!

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**Author:** ![AaronW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/aaronw/32/49251_2.png) [@AaronW](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AaronW)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/solar-eclipse-2024/398337/23 "2024-04-09T01:46:40Z")

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Northern Illinois. I just got a telescope, learning how to use it still, couldn’t get it lined up right so I put the filter on my phone.

 ![IMG_4648](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/5/3/c/53c2e467a8c380d4da96bd41fc9e40b7b6e6b5ec.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Albertino](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/albertino/32/302953_2.png) [@Albertino](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Albertino)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/solar-eclipse-2024/398337/24 "2024-04-09T07:14:06Z")

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I cannot believe I totally missed it just because I was working on a yoyo combo to film at home lmao

My girlfriend came back and say “have you seen the eclipse?” than I remember it was today, oh well it happen only once in a million years lmao

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**Author:** ![TheThrowingGnome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/thethrowinggnome/32/14231_2.png) [@TheThrowingGnome](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/TheThrowingGnome)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/solar-eclipse-2024/398337/25 "2024-04-09T13:17:03Z")

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It can be fairly difficult to manually locate the Sun with a telescope by looking through the eyepiece. The trick is to use the shadow of the telescope. Once the shadow is at its smallest you’ll be pointed right at it without even looking through the eye piece.

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**Author:** ![grubznug](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/grubznug/32/101553_2.png) [@grubznug](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/grubznug)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/solar-eclipse-2024/398337/26 "2024-04-10T13:14:32Z")

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I discovered that @DocPop 's Icarus yoyo is a great pinhole projector…

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/7/1/a/71a1ea686ca97a064a419a6628abfe491b361ce5.jpeg)

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