Reported
Photographer Captures Devil Horns Solar Eclipse Over Qatar Sea
News record
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day says Elias Chasiotis captured the distorted partial-eclipse sunrise at Al Wakrah, Qatar, on December 26, 2019.
Evidence state
developing
An identifiable August 2026 origin post explaining why the December 2019 eclipse photograph resurfaced, or a new photographer statement about the renewed circulation.
Reported vs. the record
The record
NASA APOD credits Chasiotis and explains that the Moon plus a warm-air layer over the sea produced the two-piece distorted sunrise image.
Primary-source receiptReceipts
- captured headline
Photographer Captures Devil Horns Solar Eclipse Over Qatar Sea
- screenshot timestamp
screenshot timestamp
- subject identity
subject identity
NASA APOD directly credits the featured eclipse image to Elias Chasiotis; registry review remains pending.
Open source receipt - originating speaker
NASA APOD is the earliest retained authoritative publication, but no exact August 2026 X origin post was found.
The official archive establishes the 2019 publication and credit; exact and semantic X searches did not identify the current headline origin.
Open source receipt - reporter publication
The official APOD page lists Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell as authors and editors.
The names and editorial roles appear on the directly fetched archive page.
Open source receipt - atomic claim
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day says Elias Chasiotis captured the distorted partial-eclipse sunrise at Al Wakrah, Qatar, on December 26, 2019.
The official NASA archive directly supplies the photographer credit, location, phenomenon, and relative capture date.
Open source receipt - primary source evidence
NASA APOD credits Chasiotis and explains that the Moon plus a warm-air layer over the sea produced the two-piece distorted sunrise image.
The official archive page was directly fetched and its canonical URL plus headline were hashed.
Open source receipt - response correction
The image is not from the August 12, 2026 eclipse: NASA archived it on December 28, 2019 and says it was captured two mornings earlier in Qatar.
The date, location, and relative capture date are explicit on the official archive page.
Open source receipt - resolution evidence status
The historical image attribution is documented, but the origin and context of its August 2026 recirculation remain unidentified.
Official and publication archives establish the old image, while targeted X searches found no exact current origin post.
Open source receipt
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