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My first #SolarCan experiment! The Solar Can was mounted on a pole in our garden and left for 368 days, where photo paper was being exposed to the Sun via a pinhole. The paper was removed, scanned, inverted and processed to give this final image.
Six month exposure in a pinhole camera tracking the Sun's movement from summer to winter solstice. This is so cool - you can spot stretches of cloudy days. Have to redo this to catch the summer sun better.
This image was taken using #solarcan
A few #Solarcan harvests from (or near) the #wintersolstice
1. 2nd Floor classroom at Appleton East, looking south. Late Aug - Dec 19.
2. SE, installed Sept 29 and removed Dec 18. This was the best exposure, showing leaves on the tree for a little while
3. South, Oct 19 - Dec 21
Year end #SolarCan time. This makes it look like we have had a better autumn than we have really had. #astro #solar
#SolarCan + #weather (rain, sun, snow, etc.) = You never know what will come of it 😉 and I like it
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I found a 5 pack of #Solarcan from one of their first production runs, so I installed this Solarcan, serial #562 (normally the ones I buy are in the #30,000 or more) for a few weeks in the spring - just to see if it was still good.
3 #Solarcan were installed at the winter #solstice '24 at #lawrenceuniversity #Bjorklunden in Bailey's Harbor, WI. Collected after the summer #solstice
The first is looking south at the Chapel. The second is facing the solar array, and the last one is in the woods near the solar array.
These two solargraphs came from an installation at Valley New School, looking East and South on College Avenue in Appleton, WI, installed around the spring equinox and taken down in May. #pinholephotography #solarcan #equinox
Here are a few Solarcan images I haven't shared yet. The first batch were taken from the roof of three elementary schools (Berry, McKinley and Richmond) in Appleton - installed in early January, and taken down in May to share with students.
#Solarcan #pinholephotography #solstice
A black and white, circular, photo of a house. A path snakes from the foreground upto the dark front door, above which there is a triangular porch roof. The walls are light coloured, and the main roof is dark. To the left of the house there is a large dark tree, and slightly above that, streaking away to the top left, is a bright line which shows the suns path during the long (all day) exposure time. The detail in the foreground is very blurred, as it is a pinhole camera with no lens.
Something a bit different... I used a #pinhole 📷 yesterday, a #Solarcan Puck, to take a picture of the house during the #solstice. It's facing NW, so I was hoping to get the sun's track as it went behind the Magnolia, but the clouds returned. I'm pleased with how it's come out though. 😊 #photography
Here's a solargraph of the ravine at the bottom of Reid Gold course in #Appleton The #Solarcan was installed on December 21, 2024 and removed on June 18, 2025 - just a couple days before the summer #Solstice
With the summer solstice yesterday, I collected a couple of Solarcan installations I had installed near the winter solstice. Enjoy the solargraph - days get shorter for the next 6 months #solstice #solarcan
Installing a Solarcan pinhole camera between the winter solstice and spring equinox is a unique time in the N hemisphere, with no leaves on trees and the sun isn't too high, so it gets fully captured on paper #pinholephotography #solarcan
The first image is from the Oconto river, from can #38,294
Funding for this project came from the Stan and Phyllis Thatcher Family Fund for STEM and the Dianne Catlin Lang STEM Innovators and Girls Leadership Fund within the Appleton Education Foundation
@thesolarcan #Solarcan #pinholephotography #equinox
#SolarCan on position
#DIY #pinhole #3Dprint console #longExposure #PhotoHour
#dnesBastlim #makerPost
Solargraphy with the Solarcan Puck: an image of the path of the Sun on the sky. Also an image of the view it was looking at. #solarcan @solarcan.bsky.social
Indigo image of the sun traversing the sky and the silhouette of a bare tree
I set up a #solarcan puck today. In a window in our house.
6 month exposure of @solarcan over the solar array at Bjorklunden @bjorklundendoorcounty @lawrenceuni #solarcan #solstice
Here's a story about #Solarcan photos I took at Lawrence University www.lawrence.edu/articles/alu... @solarcan.bsky.social @lawrenceuni.bsky.social
The vernal equinox can be a great time to harvest
@TheSolarCan in the northern hemisphere. You can capture the entire path of the sun, and there aren't any leaves. This Solarcan Nebula was installed in the winter solstice, & I took it down last night. #pinholephotography #equinox #Solarcan
While in Austin for #sxswedu, I chose a room facing south. On Monday, I taped a #solarcan puck to my window (for calibration purposes), and gradually adjusted the angle over the week to get the solargraph right. NOTE: on Wednesday, the puck fell giving a broken arc from the sun
Solargraphy 2023 (1): hillside behind an abandoned church.
11 month exposure, Jan-Dec.
Each line is the path of the sun for that day. You can spot when it was cloudy. The can shifted at some point in the year, creating those smears in the foreground.
#solarcan #solargraphy
*Really* pleased with this image from our #solarcan. Positioned on the front of the house from mid summer’s day to mid winter’s day 2023. It shows the path of the sun across the sky throughout those 6 months. #solargraphy
A Solarcan strapped to a downspout
A phone camera shot of a rough approximation of the solarcan’s view
The one-year exposure taken by the solarcan showing an arch of lines marking the daily path of the sun across the sky
The Camera//The View//The Photo
Winter Solstice 2022 —> 2023
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A 36-frame animation of the path of the sun looking south from the northern hemisphere. The streaks start as a low arc, moving higher and getting longer until straight at the Spring Equinox, then bending upward at the summer solstice, then reversing back toward the horizon. The trees can be seen slightly growing as well as gaining leaves in the spring and losing them in the autumn.
@solarcan.bsky.social Puck view to the south, each frame ~10 days. The path of the sun was a bit too high in the summer and distorted by the double-glazing of the window it was stuck to. #SolarCan #solargraph 2/2
A 36-frame animation of the path of the sun looking east in the northern hemisphere. The streaks start small on the right, moving to the left and getting longer until the summer solstice, then reversing mid-year. The trees can be seen slightly growing as well as gaining leaves in the spring and losing them in the autumn.
2023 in pinhole solargraphs. Twelve months, two angles of watching the sun cycle through a
@solarcan.bsky.social SolarCan Puck!
Looking East-ish, each frame is ~10 days of exposure. Processed in Lightroom and LRTimelapse. #SolarCan #solargraph 1/2
