{"id":324,"date":"2026-02-04T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/?p=324"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:20:47","slug":"news-of-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/en\/2026\/02\/04\/news-of-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards the total solar eclipse of  August 12, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:27% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/files\/2026\/02\/COVER_eclipse_ENG.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-381 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/files\/2026\/02\/COVER_eclipse_ENG.png 375w, https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/files\/2026\/02\/COVER_eclipse_ENG-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>53 years ago<\/strong>, a solar eclipse was observed from the supersonic aircraft Concorde 001, flying over West Africa, with a record duration of totality, never surpassed since: 74 minutes. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canal-u.tv\/chaines\/cerimes\/ciel-et-terre\/eclipse-73\">adventure<\/a>, of which I was one of the actors, is recounted in this book, as well as its actuality today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I gave a conference<\/strong> in Toulouse, at the invitation of the Air and Space Academy, on February 24, 2026, to tell this story. Websites of <a href=\"http:\/\/xjubier.free.fr\/en\/site_pages\/solar_eclipses\/TSE_2026_GoogleMapFull.html?Lat=63.01895&amp;Lng=-70.76977&amp;Elv=183.0&amp;Zoom=2&amp;LC=1\">Xavier Jubier <\/a>or that of the <a href=\"https:\/\/saf-astronomie.fr\/eclipse-12-aout-2026\/\">Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 astronomique de France<\/a> will help you to observe the August 12th eclipse in the best conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>53 years ago, a solar eclipse was observed from the supersonic aircraft Concorde 001, flying over West Africa, with a record duration of totality, never surpassed since: 74 minutes. This adventure, of which I was one of the actors, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/en\/2026\/02\/04\/news-of-february-2026\/\">Continuer la lecture <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/pierre-lena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}