# August 12, 2026 Solar Eclipse: A Map-Based Explanation - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2088340230042489337 - Source account: [@Brennan33](https://x.com/Brennan33) - Source language: English - Duration: 6:23 - Published: 2026-08-14 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation ## Transcript [0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=1) Good day, good day. What, what I'm going to explain is, uh, uh, the solar eclipse that's gonna happen right here. Okay? [0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=10) But first I gotta take you through a process here, okay? See this red band? [0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=17) That's the equator, okay? Or the size of the equator. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=21) See, there's the equator, okay? That's the size. [0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=27) N- now, what you're actually looking at is called the ecliptic, okay? [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=33) It's 23 point... Uh, 23.4 degrees, which will take you to the Tropic of Cancer. [0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=45) And on this end, minus 23.4 degrees, it's going to take you to the Tropic of Capricorn, okay? [0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=56) Now, see that? You're getting a light. It's coming, and it's hitting this, but what you see is the moon here or here, while this is rotating, okay? That's what's pr- actually playing out. [1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=72) So this red band represents the ecliptic. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=75) The reason they call it the ecliptic is because that's where you're getting eclipse from, okay? So notice it's right at 66.6, p- plus 66.6, it's called the Antarctic Circle. Or the Arctic Circle, I mean. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=91) Okay? Now, I'm gonna move all this. We're gonna go to a bigger map, okay? [1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=96) And then you'll start to see some stuff, okay? [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=99) Now, take a look at that. Okay, we're gonna do the same thing here. [1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=103) We're gonna move it to the An- Arctic Circle. Arctic Circle, okay? [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=109) Th- this happens to be the sun, third object, and this is where the moon actually is, okay? [2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=121) So now if I... Now, that will change. This will actually change at times, but if you watch where that red band goes, in this trip, look at, watch that red band. [2:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=135) Bingo. That's the trajectory of your eclipse right there. Am I correct? Of course, I'm correct. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=145) Now, if you keep watching that red band, in this particular case, you, you've see... Do you remember this eclipse? [2:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=154) Yeah. So, uh, it, it depends where you are, but... [2:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=159) And it does move. [2:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=164) Some of you will see. Now, it does change, okay? But in this case, we're gonna keep it here. [2:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=172) So the light's producing this, giving the light here, but it's gonna show up like the moon here, okay? [3:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=180) Okay. Now, I'm going to stick the time to this. [3:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=185) Okay, we determined the trajectory already, right? [3:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=189) Okay, now we're gonna do the time. [3:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=196) Okay? See, there we go. We're sitting at... [3:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=204) So the new moon's gonna be on August 12th, 2026 at 17:36 UTC. [3:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=211) 11:36 Mountain Standard Time for local time. So that's your 11:30 right here. [3:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=218) Then your UTS is 5:30, which happens to be here. [3:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=225) And there's, that's when the eclipse starts, and it's going to go here. [3:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=231) Okay? So that's what, that's what's actually playing out. [3:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=238) So I know where the sun is, and I know where the moon is, okay? [4:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=242) I know exactly where the sun is, and I know exactly where the moon is. [4:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=248) Now, if I did this... [4:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=256) Bingo. There's your line of sight to what's giving you the eclipse. [4:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=264) Okay. So this, this map is scientifically and practically correct. This is the true map of Earth. [4:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=270) That's just what it is, and how it works. [4:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=273) As a land manager or as a, a mapper, I got, uh, uh, GIS specialist, so I, I map, so I know how to work this map, and I've been studying this for a while, 20 years, and this thing never lies. So your trajectory on that is going to play out as such, [4:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=293) okay? That's how this works, okay? So you're getting eclipse like so. [5:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=302) It's all about optics. It's, it's not coming between the sun and the moon. You're getting eclipse because of a thing called an ecliptic, and it, it's, it's caused by the moon and the third object. Why do you get a shadow on a moon? [5:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=321) Why does it have a shadow? Because of that, okay? [5:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=327) Uh, the ecliptic... The, the third object and the moon work, like, together, okay? [5:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=333) But that's where the sun's gonna be. That's where the moon's going to be a new moon. [5:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=337) It'll happen right at 11:36. And then from there, it's going to a waning crescent, okay? [5:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=345) But that's where the moon is, and your light's produced in the middle of all this, right here. Now, take a look at this. [5:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=353) Let's do this again. Look. Look at the trajectory. Look where it is. [6:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=360) See, this doesn't lie. Once you understand the world for what it is, not a problem. [6:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=364) You got her. Okay. So, if you want me to do another video on this, ah, the complexity of this, I can't even do it in two minutes. [6:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2zfmTmtRaBiN/en/august-12-2026-solar-eclipse-a-map-based-explanation?t=371) It's just complex, but I- I'm just giving you a slight insight. Okay? Hey, have yourself an awesome day. Later.