You’ve probably seen this photograph somewhere on the internet in the last couple of weeks. It appears that the devil himself is rising from the ocean. Is it an omen? Maybe. Is it a Photoshop? No. Amateur astrophotographer Elias Chasiotis planned carefully to take images of the December 26 solar eclipse in Al Wakrah, Qatar.
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The images aren’t results of pure chance and luck. Chasiotis intentionally chose a place with the open horizon where he got a perfect view of the eclipsed sun emerging from the sea. “I hoped that optical effects like inferior mirage would be visible and I was lucky enough to capture them,” he said. “The weather conditions didn’t look good in the beginning as there was a lot of haze and low clouds in the southeast.”
“I was worried that nothing would come out of the eclipse. However, when the sun finally began to rise, it looked like two separate pieces, some sort of red horns piercing the sea. It soon took the form of a crescent, with the so-called ‘Etruscan vase’ inferior mirage effect visible. Due to its shape, the phenomenon was nicknamed the ‘evil sunrise.’”
Read more about the image, and see the entire series of photographs Chasiotis took that morning at Bored Panda.
(Image credit: Elias Chasiotis)
Source: neatorama