Solar Eclipse in Hydrogen Alpha - 12th August 2026, UK
The partial solar eclipse of 12 August 2026, photographed from the UK in hydrogen alpha, the red line of hydrogen at 656.28 nm. The DayStar Quark passes half an angstrom or less of that line, narrow enough to show the chromosphere rather than the visible surface, which is why the Moon's edge here cuts across fibrils, filaments and plage instead of a blank disc. A prominence stands off the limb at the lower left, a long dark filament curves through the middle of the crescent, and two active regions sit above it, the upper one with its sunspot showing. Totality that day ran from Siberia across the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain; from Britain and Ireland the Moon covered more than 90 per cent of the Sun. Photographed with an Altaire EDQ-60 at 300mm and an SVBony 432M.
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- Solar
- Equipment
- Altaire EDQ-60 300mm · SVBony 432M (IMX174) fan cooled · Daystar Quark Chromosphere HA · Juwei 14 Harmonic Equatorial Mount · Angeleyes CF-50 Carbon Fiber Tripod · FireCapture · Pixinsight - Photoshop