{"id":548337,"date":"2026-07-28T19:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548337\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:38:16","slug":"st-johns-set-to-experience-partial-solar-eclipse-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548337\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s Set to Experience Partial Solar Eclipse Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/partial-eclipse-june-10-nasa-bill-ingalls.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"St. John's Set to Experience Partial Solar Eclipse Next Month\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo of the June 10, 2021 annular eclipse. NASA \/\/ Bill Ingalls.)<\/p>\n<p>St. John\u2019s isn\u2019t in the path of totality, but residents of the easternmost portion of the island will be able to experience a partial solar eclipse next month.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, Portugal and Iceland will experience a total eclipse, while in St. John\u2019s, the moon will block slightly more than half of the sun\u2019s disk as it passes between the Earth and Sun. <\/p>\n<p>The partial eclipse is expected to begin over St. John\u2019s at 2:28 p.m. on Wednesday, August 12th and last about two hours. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to note that you cannot view the solar eclipse with the naked eye. You must use appropriate eclipse glasses from a reputable dealer to watch it safely without damaging your eyesight. <\/p>\n<p>The next partial solar eclipse visible in St. John\u2019s will be on August 2, 2027, while the next total eclipse won\u2019t be experienced in this part of the world in our lifetime  \u2014  it\u2019s not expected until July 17, 2205.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Photo of the June 10, 2021 annular eclipse. NASA \/\/ Bill Ingalls.) St. John\u2019s isn\u2019t in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[249282,111,156169,249279,139,69,147,392,249281,249283,249280,249276,249277,249278],"class_list":["post-548337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-new-zealand","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}