{"id":141817,"date":"2026-08-07T05:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/141817\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T05:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:08:13","slug":"a-spectacular-solar-eclipse-is-coming-heres-how-to-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/141817\/","title":{"rendered":"A spectacular solar eclipse is coming. Here\u2019s how to see it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThis is why the moon is able, sometimes, to block our view of the sun and do so in a way that just barely manages to cover the sun,\u201d says Jack Welch, a docent at the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/rfo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Robert Ferguson Observatory<\/a> in Sonoma County, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">So why doesn\u2019t this happen every month? The moon\u2019s orbit is tilted by about five degrees relative to Earth\u2019s path around the sun, so the three bodies don\u2019t always align. During most new moons, the lunar shadow passes above or below Earth. If it clips the Earth, we may experience a partial solar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The moon\u2019s orbit is also slightly elliptical, meaning its distance from Earth varies. When the moon is farther away, it can appear too small to cover the sun completely even if all three celestial bodies align. The result is an annular eclipse, in which a bright \u201cring of fire\u201d remains visible around the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Where will the August 2026 eclipse be visible?<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The August 12 eclipse will cross remote parts of the Arctic before passing over Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small section of northwestern Portugal. Totality will begin at the first location at about 4:58 p.m. UTC and end at the last at about 6:34 p.m. UTC. The eclipse will reach its maximum at 5:46 p.m. UTC, when totality will last up to two minutes and 18 seconds along the center of the path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sun\u2019s position will vary considerably across the route. \u201cIceland and Greenland will see totality higher in the sky in the late afternoon while Spain will see totality just before sunset,\u201d says Emily Watson, an astrophysicist and planetarium supervisor at the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Space &amp; Rocket Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is why the moon is able, sometimes, to block our view of the sun and do so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[67997,67998,68007,68000,57,68002,68006,68003,66950,62762,68005,68009,68004,67999,68010,68008,68001],"class_list":["post-141817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-2026-total-solar-eclipse","tag-august-12-2026-eclipse","tag-eclipse-glasses","tag-eclipse-path-of-totality","tag-greenland","tag-greenland-solar-eclipse","tag-how-to-watch-a-solar-eclipse-safely","tag-iceland-solar-eclipse","tag-next-total-solar-eclipse","tag-partial-solar-eclipse","tag-portugal-solar-eclipse","tag-solar-corona","tag-spain-solar-eclipse","tag-total-solar-eclipse-path","tag-totality","tag-what-causes-a-total-solar-eclipse","tag-where-to-see-the-2026-eclipse"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117052499966607627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}