Fall is here! Time may be fleeting, but did you know that you can capture it?! Solargraphy is a photography technique that records the path of the sun. This technique employs a pinhole camera and a piece of photographic paper. The photographic paper inside the pinhole camera records the path of the sun each day that looks like a band of light. The longer the photographic paper is exposed to the sun, the wider the band of light becomes–as each day, the sun gets higher or lower in the sky (depending on the time of year).

This year, we created and set up a homemade pinhole camera on the library roof. Follow this guide to create your own!

If you are looking for more fun experiments to do at home this season, check out our digital resource Scholastic’s ScienceFlix, which hosts hands-on projects and videos about various STEM topics. We also have Celestron star-gazing binoculars available to borrow from our Library of Things, as well as Nikon binoculars–which are great for bird-watching! And don’t forget about our museum discounts; you can visit the Museum of Science or the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture for 50% off!