Where were you when the sky went dark? 🌚🌞 On 12 August 2026, the Moon’s shadow crossed Europe, and members of the #yourESA community went out to see it for themselves. First up: an animation from @marprol, shot through a solar telescope in Galicia. It shows the eclipse building, frame by frame, right up until her mount disconnected and her laptop overheated. That’s eclipse chasing for you. Things go wrong, and you keep shooting anyway. From there, swipe through to see the rest. Some of the community travelled a long way to stand in the path of totality. Others waited with a filter and a lot of patience, watching the Sun thin down to a curve. Between them, they used telescopes, telephoto lenses, even a Polaroid, to hold onto a few minutes that don’t come round very often. @emanuele.nifosi.photography, Cava d’Aliga, Sicily, Italy Emanuele ran two rigs, one tuned to hydrogen-alpha light, the other a straightforward telescope and camera pointed at the low Sun. This is that second sh...