Letter: Seeing the eclipse in another light

It’s great to see and read how moved eclipse viewers were by the direct sight of the moon blocking out the sun. This allegedly constituted an at least momentary realization of science, here and there.Some of us, however, were extremely fortunate to see reflected on the Earth’s surface an infinite number of “moon smiles” projected onto every single point of sunlight that filtered through every tree and shrub, during perhaps a half hour before and after the eclipse, itself,