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Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
- orsenthil 2mo agoSuch a sophisticated website with great details. Good luck on watching. I think, rest of folks in other parts of the word will be tuning in virtually.
- a1o 2mo agoAwesome, people in Spain are lucky to see this!
- ajmurmann 2mo agoPeople in Iceland as well!
- nekusar 2mo agoIn Hofn right now, taking the ring road. We have a hotel in þingeyri on eclipse day. We're at 1min50s at our hotel.
- ajmurmann 2mo agoHere in Patreksfjordur it's all overcast for now but forecast is the least bad of any place in Iceland
- nekusar 2mo agoYeah for the 12th we lucked out in þingeyri for 2 rooms at USD 250$ a night. It was overcast, but a hell of an amazing party. Was invited in to a viking village, and a Michelin star chef catering food.. And ended up on Veislan!
- MrDresden 2mo agoHeavy rain forcast on Wednesday, with sun the day before and after. Hoping the weather forecast will shift (as often happens here)!
- embedding-shape 2mo agoThe sea is hitting record high temperatures, we're overrun by tourists and our country is on fire but at least we get like three eclipses in a row, so that's pretty cool :) Jokes aside, life's overall pretty great, and the eclipses are exciting!
- glimshe 2mo agoVery cool! Just remember the one truth about solar eclipses: total or nothing. While I don't want to dismiss partial eclipses entirely, please don't think that partial eclipses are "almost the same" as total eclipses. One is a curiosity, the other is a memorable life event.
- teraflop 2mo agoAgreed, but I'll just add that annular eclipses occupy an intermediate point on that scale. With a partial eclipse, shadows look odd and the sunlight "feels" noticeably dimmer and more muted, but if you're not paying attention you might not notice much out of the ordinary. An annular eclipse is much more dramatic and unmistakable. It's not as striking as totality, and of course you can't directly observe it without eye protection, but the "ring of fire" is beautiful in its own way.
- monster_truck 2mo agoIf you've ever needed an excuse to rent a sports car and drive for 4-8 hours, this is the one.
- spenrose 2mo agoGot caught in a day-long traffic jam leaving a rural area in North America after the 2017 total eclipse.
- tverbeure 2mo agoIt’s the one time I remember when the French highway toll booths said F that, let’s just open them up and let everyone pass. The August 11, 1999 solar eclipse. The whole of Northern Europa driving back up, me included. To bad it was cloudy, not sun to be see. I saw the 2017 one in Oregon though, it was scorching hot but no cloud to be seen.
- dylan604 2mo agoI got to enjoy the 2024 eclipse from my backyard. It was cloudy right up to totality, and I had serious concerns of not being able to see it. So unless it's raining, it's still worth a look up. Years before that there was a partial eclipse where a group of people left because it was cloudy. I stuck it out and just before sunset it popped out of the clouds to give a great view of ~80%.
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- tom1337890 2mo agoIncredible page. Taking into account terrain and sunlight path. Wow
- alkyon 2mo agoIn Spain it's a trio of consecutive eclipses from 2026 to 2028 (the last one annular). To view the second one I don't even need travel anywhere. Will be in Saragossa on Wednesday and gonna use Canon binos with image stabilization, the partial phase with filter and then some precious seconds without (a scary moment, I'll rely on an alarm to prevent my eyes to get damaged when the totality is over). Some people generally advised to skip any instruments and just enjoy it with your own eyes for the first time, but I'm too curious about corona details to let this opportunity pass.
- Zardoz84 2mo agoit's called Zaragoza
- usrnm 2mo agoCan we please stop with this nonsense? No matter where you live and which language you speak you never call the majority of places on Earth right. Can we just accept it and move on?
- cladopa 2mo agoIt is not non sense. I am spaniard myself and I did not understood what he was talking about until I saw the correction(is this a club name or something?). If I want to talk about "Seattle" and use "Siadol" a lot of people are not going to understand.
- alkyon 2mo agoAt least you learned something new today
- usrnm 2mo ago"Saragossa" is an old and well-established spelling of that city's name in English and this is an English-speaking forum
- tialaramex 2mo ago
- sneak 2mo agoI’ll be in Iceland this week to photograph it. Any other HNers going to be around? I’m @sneak.07 on Signal, let’s meet up.
- tamimio 2mo agoI saw the one in Canada back in 2024, I don’t think I have ever witnessed such an amazing phenomenon like that before, a white glowing ring in the sky!! I will see if I can catch the 2027.
- ProllyInfamous 2mo agoI brought binoculars to the 2024 event and made sure to keep my eyes closed during the preceding partial solar eclipse (eye acclimation). After the total eclipse was over, I watched a single honeybee re-orient itself, having temporarily lost its heliocentric bearings (bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented). Having also witnessed the 2017 total eclipse, certainly these are memorable events worth traveling into their totalities (could not say the same for partial eclipses).
- heresie-dabord 2mo ago> these are memorable events It's a fascinating learning experience. Birds fall silent and the temperature drops quickly. Our species is too inconsiderate of Sol and nature. > bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented. For those who share the interest, here is an article about bees' eyes: https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-bees-use-the-sun-for-navigation-even-on-cloudy-days/ https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-bees-use...
- tamimio 2mo agoI have a telescope and traveled hours just so I can see it, and it’s truly memorable, not just the totality but also the trip and all the details of it, I was standing with my telescope outside on the hill (which is also an old castle) and when people were leaving after the totality, they all lined up asking me to see the partial with the telescope (I had the sun filter), kids, families, tourists, everyone! > having temporarily lost its heliocentric bearings (bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented). Thanks for sharing that, I knew bees see different colors but not the sun’s polarity, I just spent two hours down the rabbit hole reading and watching bees stuff, till I ended up with hornets killing the whole beehives so had to stop!
- frankensteins 2mo agoVery detailed site. It said open source. where is the source?
- gregsadetsky 2mo agohttps://gitlab.com/globus-faber-public/eclipsefan https://gitlab.com/globus-faber-public/eclipsefan
- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoNeither of the two licenses are open-source licenses. In particular, the licenses are encumbered by the noncommercial restrictions. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ The outputs, rather than the source code, are said to be under this CC-BY-NC-SA licensing. https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd I am not familiar with Polyform, but my cursory research indicates that this family of licenses is deliberately and consistently non-open-source. https://polyformproject.org/about https://polyformproject.org/about It is profoundly deceptive to post this headlining as "Open-source" when it is deliberately not.
- clbrmbr 2mo agoWhoah, so cool how the map shows the shadow of mountains at that late time in the day. Geneva and the Jura look awesome.
- mr1337 2mo agoI was able to catch the last solar eclipse in the US, and it was amazing. I'm a little sad I won't be able to catch this one, especially in Mallorca. Seeing the eclipse low in the sky, an hour before sunset. That has got to be a phenomenal view. I think this tool is super neat. I love the shadow simulation for the terrain. Very well done!
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- DerekAndJason 2mo agoI'm one of the two developers of a weather app, so we had cloud data for the whole path and turned it into a plain page: https://forecastbar.com/eclipse-2026/ https://forecastbar.com/eclipse-2026/ It gives cloud cover at the actual eclipse hour rather than a daily average, city by city, free and nothing to install. As of tonight it splits sharply. Iceland is largely a write-off: Reykjavik and the Westman Islands are both 98% cloud at eclipse hour and flat all evening, so it isn't a timing problem you can wait out. The Westfjords are the exception — Ísafjörður is 75%, still poor but the best number in the country by a wide margin, and it's inside totality at about 1m33s. Northern Spain is the good half: Burgos 8%, Zaragoza 8%, Bilbao 11%, Tarragona 13%. Palma de Mallorca is at 1% and it's in the path; Madrid and Lisbon, just outside it, are 1% too. It's one commercial model four days out, so treat it as a second opinion. Where it disagrees with AEMET or the Met Office, believe them. We refresh it each morning until Wednesday.
- dizzant 2mo agoA real treat for all the pilgrims on the Camino this year
- franch 2mo agoI suggest this one: https://eclipsemap.xyz https://eclipsemap.xyz
- gdotdesign 2mo agoThis is really good, found a possible great spot near Lugo!
- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoPublic Domain map: https://aa.usno.navy.mil/downloads/eclipses/eclipse_sun_2026_08.pdf https://aa.usno.navy.mil/downloads/eclipses/eclipse_sun_2026... Let's not forget who makes all these open-source interactive projects possible: Works by the US Government and Military are in the Public Domain by law. All the maps and data you got, NASA and the Naval Observatory generated it with their systems, their sensors, their satellites, their employees and enlisted men.
- Symbiote 2mo agoIt's very presumptive of you to assume the USA is the only source. The site credits many more European sources than American.
- naiv 2mo agoWe will be in Ibiza but more of a coincidence. I didn't even know that there is one when we booked. What makes this eclipse VERY different is the low angle (3-4 degress), so the viewpoints need to be planned well. Also the clouds further to the west are extremely important, for Spain there is https://www.aemet.es/es/eltiempo/prediccion/destacados/p5_t?tipo=p51tesp1 https://www.aemet.es/es/eltiempo/prediccion/destacados/p5_t?... as well as https://visualizadores.ign.es/eclipses/2026 https://visualizadores.ign.es/eclipses/2026
- michelb 2mo agoA well-known Dutch photographer made handy tool: https://eclipse.albertdros.com https://eclipse.albertdros.com
- deepmem 2mo agoWow, a very simple and easy tool to check the visibility.
- konraditurbe 2mo agoI'm going up to Castellón to catch it with the drone
- djfergus 2mo agoIn the Dwarkesh podcast about relativity they talked about one of the ways to prove einsteins theory was to observe a total eclipse - stars that should not be visible were predicted to bend their light rays and be able to be seen. Explorers launched grand expeditions in the early 1900s to be the first to witness and prove the phenomenon. Made me yearn for a more heroic time. They kept being thwarted by weather, clouds etc and eventually scientists worked out the theory could be easily proven by the red shift of stars by direct observation.
- squigz 2mo agoAll times need heroes.
- ButlerianJihad 2mo ago> one of the ways to prove einsteins theory > scientists worked out the theory could be easily proven Theories aren't proven. Einstein, working from previous theories and models, wrote his hypothesis or proposal of General Relativity. This, too, gained consensus and gave rise to mathematical models. The models made predictions, and the predictions have been largely confirmed to date. It has proven to be a robust theory without notable falsification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens Therefore, the theory enjoys popularity and prominence, and a good reputation in the scientific consensus. There is no "proving a theory" but the models had predicted the gravitational lensing phenomenon, and empirical observations confirmed these predictions as reality, and science marches on.
- anthk 2mo agoBasque Spaniard there; I will be at one of the easiest places to watch it (mountainous place, near the Bay of Biscay).