The countdown has begun to a rare astronomical event. On 12 August, a total solar eclipse will be visible for the first time in 121 … years. While the eclipse will only be partial in Malaga and much of southern Spain, the path of totality will cross large areas of northern Spain before continuing eastwards.<\/p>\n
According to Spain’s National Geographic Institute (IGN), the eclipse will be partially visible across northern North America, much of Europe and western Africa. The event will begin at 5:34pm, using official time in mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands, over the Bering Sea and end at 9:58pm over the Atlantic Ocean. The entire phenomenon will last 264 minutes, just under four and a half hours.<\/p>\n
The path of totality will cross the Arctic Ocean, north-eastern Greenland and the western tip of Iceland before crossing the Atlantic and entering the Iberian Peninsula from west to east, passing over numerous provincial capitals.<\/p>\n
Across Spain, almost the entire northern half of the peninsula will experience a total eclipse, while the southern half will see only a partial eclipse.<\/p>\n
Galicia will be the first region where the eclipse becomes visible. In A Coru\u00f1a, it will begin at 7:31pm, reach its maximum at 8:28pm and end at 9:22pm, shortly before sunset. Totality there will last 76 seconds, with the sun 12 degrees above the horizon, according to the IGN.<\/p>\n
In Malaga, the eclipse will begin at 7:43pm, reach its maximum at 8:38pm and end at 9:12pm as the sun sets.<\/p>\n
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The path of totality across Spain will extend from A Coru\u00f1a to Palma, passing over Lugo, Oviedo, Le\u00f3n, Zamora, Valladolid, Palencia, Segovia, Burgos, Soria, Santander, Bilbao, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Logro\u00f1o, Guadalajara, Cuenca, Zaragoza, Teruel, Lleida, Tarragona, Valencia and Castell\u00f3n de la Plana.<\/p>\n
The final place in Spain where the eclipse will be visible will be the Balearic Islands. In Palma de Mallorca, it will begin at 7:38pm and reach its maximum at 8:32pm, just minutes before sunset, when the Sun will be only two degrees above the horizon.<\/p>\n
The point of greatest eclipse will occur near Iceland at 7:46pm (mainland Spain), where totality will last up to two minutes and 18 seconds. \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The countdown has begun to a rare astronomical event. On 12 August, a total solar eclipse will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4666,13514,23071,1753,77920,87614,90,4742,416,1777,56,54,55,71151,4667,11555,11556],"class_list":["post-702015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-and","tag-august","tag-eclipse","tag-like","tag-malaga","tag-path","tag-science","tag-solar","tag-space","tag-the","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-visible","tag-what","tag-when","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}