Astronomy Picture of the Day - Total Solar Eclipse from Greenland

NASA ^ | 14 Aug, 2026 | Image Credit & Copyright: Aditya Madhavan

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: On August 12, the Moon's shadow reached out to touch our fair planet. Beginning in the Arctic Ocean, it swept along a narrow track that led the dark lunar umbra across parts of Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic, Portugal, and northern Spain. And for a moment, denizens of Earth who found themselves with clear skies under the shadow of the Moon could witness a total solar eclipse. After dodging the weather by sea and making a landing along Rype Fjord on the Greenland east coast (at 71.07055N, 27.71252W), this hard-won snapshot was captured at 17:33:26 UTC. That's near the initial reach of clearing skies along the path of totality, so the image is likely one of the first unobstructed views of the totally eclipsed Sun. Through a break in the clouds, the stunning photo also records one of this eclipse's transient diamond rings and the magnificent solar corona emerging near the moment totality began.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

[MtnClimber]

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[MtnClimber]

[No name given]

Whoa.

[MtnClimber]

Pinging the APOD list

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[fwdude]

This pains me as I missed our Texas eclipse two years ago. I was there, but a pesky cloud came over and obscured the sun/moon for the entire duration of totality. So maddening.

[NavyShoe]

If you’ve never seen a total solar eclipse, try to.

[mairdie]

Partial Solar Eclipse - Trumpet Voluntary - Helmut Wobisch
https://youtu.be/FW0A6D8TBag

[Carry_Okie]

I saw one on my birthday in 2017 from Lookout Mountain above the John Day Valley. I didn't go there to see the eclipse; I went to photograph the edge of the umbra coming up the Valley.

When darkness came, the top of the mountain broke out in song, "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you...

Interestingly to me, that wasn't the highlight of our trip, which was to see Perry Spring in the wildlands of a Nevada Shoshone Reservation. That was amazing.

[Red Badger]

[KarlInOhio]

If you have seen one, go to see a second.

It's amazing how different they can look. The one in 2017 in Tennessee barely had a corona. The one in Ohio in 2024 had the full corona you see in most pictures.