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Wednesday 12 August 2026 · JMuseo terrace

Eclipse at sunset

The evening the Sun went down over the lagoon with a bite taken out of it.

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every place taken before the night
92%
of the Sun covered at maximum
8:18 pm
the moment of maximum, over the lagoon

The evening

A terrace with its head in the sky

On 12 August the JMuseo terrace filled up long before the hour. Certified glasses at the door, instruments in place and the lagoon ahead: up here the western horizon is low and clear, which is exactly why the evening was born on this roof.

At 8:18 pm the Moon covered 92% of the Sun, which by then was dropping towards the water. A live link with INAF followed totality from Spain, while the sky over Jesolo slowly dimmed. Then the disc vanished, and nobody left.

The dj set on the JMuseo terrace with the sky still bright behind

Before

The terrace fills up

Drinks, music and a slow queue towards the parapet. The Sun was still high and the roof already felt like a party waiting for something.

The audience on the JMuseo terrace looking towards the lagoon as the Sun sets

The wait

Everyone facing west

Phones up, glasses on foreheads, every gaze in the same direction. From the terrace you can see the pine wood, the lagoon and the mountains behind: the right place to watch a Sun leaving.

How it went

The running order

  1. At the doors

    Welcome

    Certified glasses at the door and instruments set up on the terrace.

  2. Shortly after

    Scientific introduction

    Pleiadi explains what is about to happen in the sky, and how to watch it safely.

  3. Towards sunset

    Guided observation

    Eyes to the filter, with the INAF live stream from Spain, where the eclipse is total.

  4. At the peak

    Maximum

    92% of the Sun is covered and the disc touches the lagoon.

  5. Then

    Questions

    Astronomical wrap-up and time for the audience's questions.

  6. After dark

    The naked-eye sky

    Once dark, the terrace stays open to look at the August stars.

The low Sun filtering through orange clouds above the silhouettes of the audience

Maximum

A bite out of the Sun

Low clouds on the horizon filtered the light and handed the evening its gift: the disc cut by the Moon, orange, appearing and disappearing between one cloud and the next until the very last moment.

The evening in pictures

Twelve August, from the JMuseo roof

A pair of MOON-branded solar viewing glasses resting beside a Moon-shaped lamp
The certified glasses, MOON branded, ready at the door.
A crate full of still-wrapped eclipse glasses carrying the MOON logo
The supply, before the doors opened.
A screen on the terrace showing the eclipsed Sun on a live feed, with the audience in front of it
On the screen, the live link.
A DSLR with a telephoto lens on a tripod, the eclipsed Sun showing on its rear display
The bitten Sun, on the display of the person filming it.
A long line of people in eclipse glasses leaning on the terrace parapet
The whole parapet, facing the same way.
A woman holding eclipse glasses up to her eyes with both hands
Two hands to hold the filter steady.
A little girl held up to look at the Sun through eclipse glasses, a woman beside her wearing the same glasses
A first eclipsed Sun, from up in someone's arms.
Two smiling visitors wearing eclipse glasses and giving a thumbs up
Glasses on, ready to look.
A visitor adjusting his eclipse glasses while looking at the Sun, with others watching behind him
Shortly before maximum, everyone facing the same way.
Two girls cutting strips of paper during a children's activity
At the activity table, the youngest hands.
The MOON staff posing together on the terrace wearing eclipse glasses
The people who held the evening together.
The JMuseo entrance at night, with the large illuminated MOON exhibition banner
The JMuseo entrance, once the evening was over.

The Moon stays at the JMuseo until 6 January.

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