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    "title": "Map of the August 12, 2026, Total Solar Eclipse",
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            "description": "On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, the Moon passes in front of the Sun, casting its shadow across a wide swath of Earth's Northern Hemisphere. The path of totality begins in far northern Siberia, near the North Pole, and travels south through the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans, passing over Iceland and Spain. The rest of Europe and parts of North America and Africa experience a partial eclipse.\r\n\r\nThe Moon's shadow can be divided into two parts: the very narrow **umbra**, where the Sun is completely blocked, and the much broader **penumbra**, where the Sun is only partially blocked. Red lines on the map denote the path of the umbra, where a total solar eclipse is visible. Yellow ovals within this path show the intersection of the umbra with Earth's surface at 15-minute intervals. The yellow curves crossing the map trace the extent of the penumbra, where a partial eclipse is visible. Percentages on each of these curves give the maximum area of the Sun covered by the Moon during the eclipse. The green lines that cross the penumbra curves show the progress of the eclipse over time. The times on each indicate when maximum eclipse arrives at that line.\r\n\r\nThe times are written in UTC or Coordinated Universal Time, successor to the former Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) standard. To find the local time, add the location's time zone offset from UTC. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is four hours behind UTC, for example, so 18:00 UTC is 14:00 (2:00 p.m.) EDT.\r\n\r\nThe orange loops at either end of the path are the sunrise and sunset lines. The loop at the western (left) end is the sunrise line. Within this loop, the eclipse is already in progress at sunrise. The left half of that loop is the line at which the eclipse *ends* at sunrise. The right half of the western loop is the line at which the eclipse *begins* at sunrise. Within the eastern loop, the eclipse is still in progress at sunset. The left side is the line at which the eclipse ends at sunset, and the right half is where the eclipse begins at sunset. The blue lines bisecting these loops are where *maximum* eclipse occurs at sunrise or sunset. All of these lines are based on an idealized model of the eclipse geometry. The true situation at the ends of the shadow path is much messier. The apparent positions of the Sun and Moon relative to the horizon are affected by local terrain and atmospheric refraction.\r\n\r\nTwo aspects of eclipse mapping can be particularly confusing. The first is the difference between obscuration (the area of the Sun covered by the Moon) and magnitude (the diameter of the Sun covered). The partial eclipse contours on this map show the obscuration, while some other maps show magnitude contours. The contour for a given partial percentage will lie in different places for these two metrics because they measure somewhat different things, but they are both valid.\r\n\r\nSecond, many people are puzzled by the eclipse shadow's motion from west to east, opposite the apparent motion of the Sun and the rest of the sky from east to west. The direction of the shadow's motion is determined by the orbital motion of the Moon, which is in the same direction as Earth's rotation but over twice as fast. The Moon is moving at roughly 2,300 miles per hour (3,700 km/hr) from west to east, while a spot on Earth's equator is traveling only a little over 1,000 mph (1,600 km/hr). And because of Earth's curvature, the speed of the shadow on the ground is even faster than this difference implies.\r\n\r\nThe path of this eclipse also has a strong north-south component, the combined effect of Earth's rotation and the tilt of both Earth's axis and the Moon's orbit. The eclipse occurs near the Moon's descending node, where the Moon is moving south across the plane of the ecliptic, while from the Moon's point of view, Earth's North Pole is tilted to the left (celestial east). Combined with Earth's rotation, the umbra's eastern motion during the first half of its travel is effectively canceled out.",
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