Jim Cobb's observation of multiple images of a partial eclipse produced by the foliage of a young tree is echoed in a nice photograph of this very thing in a recent booklet on the eclipse. The caption reads: If there are trees near the location from which you are observing the total eclipse of 11 August 1999 many images of the crescent sun may be visible in the shadows beneath those trees during the partial phase of the eclipse..... etc.
Everybody who attended the recent annual meeting of the British Sundial Society received a free copy of the booklet: The RGO Guide to the 1999 Total Eclipse of the Sun by Steve Bell, published by HM Nautical Almanac Office,Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge, 1997, ISBN 0 905 087 03 8 -- Frank Evans
