https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16184976/solar-eclipse-photography-lens-flare-crescent-artifacts-iphone >Maybe you didn’t plan ahead for the eclipse and found yourself in the same situation I did: unprepared. I expected to be traveling on Monday, so when I found myself under the clear Boston sky as the Moon began to move in front of the Sun, I had no eclipse glasses, no supplies to make a pinhole projector, and no decent camera. All I had was my iPhone SE in its grubby plastic case. >If you’re like me, you might have taken as many photos as you could with your setup, and discovered some weird surprises in the shots. In my case, there were eclipse-shaped bright spots in the sky — which Business Insider ID’d as lens flares. I was wondering what they were doing there, so I turned to a colleague who knows more about photography than I do: Verge senior editor Dan Seifert, who was a photographer and ran multiple camera shops before becoming a journalist. Here’s our non-exhaustive accounting of image artifacts that may be showing up in your eclipse photos.