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19 August 2026 at 4:46 pm #642534
Denis Buczynski
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Hi Giovanni,
Would the fact that the eclipse image that you show was taken at a low altitude not mean that the image would look redder due to atmospheric extinction that if the image had been taken with the Sun higher in the sky?
Denis Buczynski
Disclaimer: comment from an inexperienced TSE observer of only one TSE, that of Cornwall in 1999.