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2026 Eclipse Webcams

513 points by zoenolan 2mo ago

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embedding-shape 2mo ago
This is great, can easily see what spots are overfilled with people or not :) I'm still thinking about where exactly I'll go to see it, was thinking Calafell or Vilanova as they're nearby and easily accessible, but probably half of Barcelona thinks the same so better to go a bit inland. Probably I'll end up just outside Lleida I think. Any more Spanish HNers (or temporary visitors) who are going to any specific places to see it? :)
- davidricodias 2mo ago
  Colmenar Viejo seems a great spot ;)
  - embedding-shape 2mo ago
    Only 7 hours away :D I'm in the Maresme area, so probably will end up between València and Tarragona on some mountain :) Thanks for the tip though, I'll forward it to my Madrid friends.
- hagen8 2mo ago
  Mountains close to leon?
- iancuandrei 2mo ago
  I'll go somewhere around Bilbao
- Al-Khwarizmi 2mo ago
  I'm from A Coruña so I should be able to just go down to the street, walk like 100 m and see it. I just hope clouds don't spoil the show (at the moment it's looking good, but here you never know).
  - embedding-shape 2mo ago
    How it ended up? South of Catalunya was clear sky as far as the eye could see, was a great evening :) We got maybe 30-40 seconds of totality I think in the end.
    - Al-Khwarizmi 2mo ago
      It ended up very unlucky... the forecast was good, the sky was totally clear at 6 pm, but clouds quickly started to form and in the total phase it was fully covered. I got mad and ragebooked a flight to Málaga to see next year's one :D
      - embedding-shape 2mo ago
        Oh no, that's sad! Better luck next year indeed! We're thinking of Tunisia instead, take advantage and visit our African neighbors across the sea :)
- egesko 2mo ago
  I'm in Valencia, planning to watch it from the beach.
  - ravroid 2mo ago
    Also in Valencia and the beach is a great idea.
- jegea 2mo ago
  A little too late to travel from Barcelona, but anywhere in the province of Teruel or the east part of Guadalajara is inside totality area, will have great weather, clear skies and is endemically underpopulated, so, even with eclipse-chasers coming for the occasion, it will be orders of magnitude less crowded than the coast. As for myself, I'll be watching it from here: https://theeclipse.app/2026-total/maps/default?lng=-3.5627064170823814&lat=42.52472295942496&z=5.525076535251974&markedLng=-1.325497626295089&markedLat=40.839047235751565&markedExpanded=true&markedShadow=true https://theeclipse.app/2026-total/maps/default?lng=-3.562706...
  - jegea 2mo ago
    Free bonus: These areas are generally quite high over sea level (like ~1000m or so) and have very low light contamination, so the night sky is great. So, if you wait 3-4 hours after the eclipse, you'll be able to enjoy a great moonless sky, with plenty of stars, the Milky Way and, hopefully, some Perseids!!
  - embedding-shape 2mo ago
    I love Teruel in general, didn't have time to go that far though as you mentioned! We ended up heading towards Tarragona, got tired of the traffic and stopped at Cubelles/Cunit, ended on top of a parking garage of Mercadona with a bunch of other people. Was perfect, clear sky and close enough to home :) I think we ended up getting 30-40 seconds of totality or so, but lost count as I was watching it.
xanthine 2mo ago
Sorry for my ignorance, but can someone please explain what I'm looking at here?
- embedding-shape 2mo ago
  Today there is a eclipse, the map shows where the eclipse will be. In the path of the eclipse, there are also a ton of live webcams, and this map shows those and let you preview the webcams. Does it make sense now?
  - rob74 2mo ago
    Even more specifically, it will start off over Greenland, continue over western Iceland and then finish with the sunset in northeastern Spain and the Balearic Islands.
    - voidUpdate 2mo ago
      If you pan to the right, it shows that it actually starts in a bit of russia
      - plorg 2mo ago
        That area (Taymyr Peninsula) looks crazy remote and inaccessible. It would be wild to be there, let alone experience an eclipse there. I think it might even be illegal to do so without a permit, though I'm also curious what enforcement looks like in an area so far from what we think of as normal infrastructure.
        embedding-shape 2mo ago
        > I think it might even be illegal to do so without a permit Do what, just visit? Seems to be public land as far as I can see, and very empty on top of that, I don't think anyone would mind you being there to see an eclipse :)
        voidUpdate 2mo ago
4gotunameagain 2mo ago
Really cool. I'm quite curious as to where the webcam data came from, as it seems to be from various websites/sources.
- v-mdev 2mo ago
  I'm curious too
Tornhoof 2mo ago
Sierra de Guadarrama - Puerto de Cotos https://www.infonieve.es/espacio-nordico/puerto-de-cotos/webcams/ https://www.infonieve.es/espacio-nordico/puerto-de-cotos/web... looks decent, different views, good weather.
- Tornhoof 2mo ago
  While the Webcam has a good View, according to current images, it only updates every 5 minutes, e.g. 20:30h 57s and the totality at that location starts 30s later.
moron4hire 2mo ago
I took my kids out of school and took an unplanned day off work in the middle of an important meeting series to drive 5 hours west from Virginia to Ohio to see the last eclipse. The schools and my boss were both yelling at me, both saying the eclipse wasn't a good enough excuse. I'm sorry, but it definitely was. I am so glad I did that. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
- Uncle_Brumpus 2mo ago
  I drove ~3 hours to the Vermont-Canada border... and then drove 14 hours home. I'd also do it again in a heartbeat. I almost signed up for a live-work program for a big music festival happening in Iceland, but the flights (the only thing not covered) were astronomically expensive and I had already made plans with my dad last weekend, and he's getting older so I really didn't want to bail on him. I would love to sit atop the Rock of Gibraltar (with 47,000 other people) for the next one, Aug 2 2027, but that is likely also a pipe-dream, because NORMAL flights to Gibraltar are already too expensive for me.
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 2mo ago
    I also report strange time anomalies. I blasted to Burlington from Nashua early morning and it took ~3 hrs to get there and ~7 hrs to get home...in a manual transmission. I'd do it again too, life changing experience.
    - flymasterv 2mo ago
      Boston to Bingham, Maine in about 4 hours. I was in my car and headed home about 10 seconds after totality ended and made it home in 5 hours. Totally worth it.
- alnwlsn 2mo ago
  Both myself and my boss took off work to see the last one. Though unplanned it was not, as eclipses can be predicted centuries in advance. I intended to see it before even working there. Looking forward to the next local one in 2045.
matsemann 2mo ago
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2026-august-12 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2026-august-12 Nice page showing where it will be, with times and visualizations for any point/city.
- DerDerDaIst 2mo ago
  Lovely page thx. Means for aljezur portugal we´ll experience a totallity?
LawrenceKerr 2mo ago
Doesn't seem like the best of weather now in Iceland, hopefully it clears up. Otherwise it would suck for the people who have planned the trip months if not years in advance only to get a clouded sky, but that's always the risk with astrotravel.
- benoliver999 2mo ago
  Surely the smart money is to go to Spain
  - embedding-shape 2mo ago
    We do get cloudy days too sometimes :) Although today it is looking fairly sunny all over the place: https://i.imgur.com/4LK7xo8.png https://i.imgur.com/4LK7xo8.png
  - pzo 2mo ago
    there is another total solar eclipse next year in 2027 in south of spain if the first time not lucky
    - wbl 2mo ago
      I'm watching that one in Egypt.
  - otherme123 2mo ago
    One of the best places would be Asturias, which has also incredibly scenery worth the travel, but it was too cloudy in many places. Not all of Spain is sun and beaches!
    - LunaSea 2mo ago
      The best spot (imo) was Leon, just in the south of Asturias where the sky was clear.
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MadrasTh0rn 2mo ago
Very cool
NKosmatos 2mo ago
Thanks for posting this, most of us won’t be able to view the eclipse but having a few webcams really helps to get the feeling! Hoping to be able to see the great eclipse of 2027 live ;-) https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2027-august-2 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2027-august-2
- JaumeGreen 2mo ago
  Pictures do not do justice, and in my opinion the most photographed part (moon covering the sun) is not the most interesting one. How the light changes, the corona when it's total darkness, and the light coming back again. All this is hundreds of times better than the occlusion (IMHO). Watching the moon in front of the sun, with the corona around it, it's a memory that I plan to hold on for as long as I can.
aljgz 2mo ago
Living in Vancouver, I traveled to Toronto to watch the Eclipse in 2024. We faced a nasty cloud, and had to drive hundreds of kilometers (hundreds of miles) to get a reasonably good view. On the drive back I decided that I'll travel for the one that's happening today, and here I am, in Sierra, with some cool people. Solar eclipses happen rarely enough, and frequently enough, to act as milestones in my life: I can review what happened since the previous one, and make a plan for the next one. They are some of the most magnificent natural phenomena, much more interesting than what's expected. The only other one that I got to see in perfect conditions was in my home town, Isfahan in 1999. I hope this one is perfectly clear again, and I have some resolutions for the next one.
- Insanity 2mo ago
  I was in Toronto in 2024. Wanted to travel to EU for the next one (I’m from EU) but sadly couldn’t make that happen. Enjoy the eclipse!
  - tamimio 2mo ago
    Same here! I couldn’t make it this year so hopefully next one!
- sokoloff 2mo ago
  > hundreds of kilometers (hundreds of miles) This units “conversion” earned a chuckle from me…
- tnguy3n 2mo ago
  I flew to Toronto to watch the 2024 Eclipse as well. Super disappointing experience due to the clouds and seeing so many beautiful pictures of totality beforehand.
  - netsharc 2mo ago
    It's currently cloudy in Iceland. Hah, hotel prices doubled, and they're not even getting any show ("they" is almost "we" because I was thinking of travelling there).
jonty 2mo ago
This is mine! Built it quickly in 2024 for the US eclipse [1] and finished minutes before totality started. I completely forgot about it until a friend asked this morning. Coordinating a DDOS on cameras across Iceland and Spain was not on my to-do list for today. Fingers crossed it doesn't break for you all - I will be watching it with my own eyes this time. [1] https://jonty.github.io/2024_eclipse_webcams/ https://jonty.github.io/2024_eclipse_webcams/
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- v-mdev 2mo ago
  Some of the webcams doesn't work, for example in Torreblanca, Castellón. I guess it's normal
- blazarquasar 2mo ago
  For mallorca, a lot of the cameras are pointing in the wrong direction and many of the ones pointing in the right direction are missing. Just from a quick glance at this map: https://visiona.conectabalear.com/map/ https://visiona.conectabalear.com/map/ Thanks for this tho! Didn’t think of checking for cameras!
- ck2 2mo ago
  does openstreetmap have a realtime weather layer perhaps that can be turned on to see who is going to be affected by cloudcover?
  - andai 2mo ago
    Maybe Windy.com has a layer for that. I also use https://www.sat24.com/ https://www.sat24.com/ (I think it only covers Europe)
- rdiddly 2mo ago
  How did you find all these cameras? Am I stupid?
lifestyleguru 2mo ago
I'm declaring that sun will die a over northern Spain and western Iceland by the end of the day.
hno8a34nwn 2mo ago
Was just dealing with this yesterday
rimworld 2mo ago
cool -thx
christkv 2mo ago
We are going to get the full solar eclipse, but to be honest I'm going to enjoy the transitions more than the actual eclipse itself. It's not like the glasses will give you a great view of the actual sun itself compared to a live professional camera setup so I'll be having the tv on to se the "filtered" view of the sun directly instead of trying to stare at it. I'll peak a glance once in awhile.
- ceravis 2mo ago
  If you're going to be within the path of totality, I strongly urge you to go outside and look up at the eclipse during totality with the naked eye, it's safe: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safety/#eye-safety-total https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safety/#eye-safety-total Truly a transcendent experience: the shadow of the moon rushing across the land toward you, the air suddenly cooling, the sunset horizon in every direction, the ring of the sun's corona surrounding the silhouette of the moon... There's no other natural phenomenon like it, and video/photos truly don't do it justice!
  - v-mdev 2mo ago
    Amazing, duly noted
  - christkv 2mo ago
    Will definitely do thanks
gillesjacobs 2mo ago
Cool, there is no check on the direction of the camera. Various camera's I checked do not seem to point in the direction of the sun during totality. It does filter candidate cameras down though.
dorienh 2mo ago
Sad to be in Singapore where eclipse is not visible!
- dolmen 2mo ago
  Next year: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/singapore?iso=20270802 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/singapore?iso=2027080...
fxn 2mo ago
On a Virgin cruise near Ibiza, getting ready for it before sunset. Anyone else in the cruise say hello!
- thom 2mo ago
  Different cruise in the Bay of Biscay but hello!
Longwelwind 2mo ago
Does anyone know if there will be any live feed of the earth viewed from space during the eclipse?
- HelloUsername 2mo ago
  Maybe here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSvCuSQhC3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSvCuSQhC3w
rythmshifter 2mo ago
I get access blocked errors all over the screen
rythmshifter 2mo ago
I get "access blocked, referer is required" errors tiled all over the screen
dolmen 2mo ago
Don't bother looking at Iceland: weather is awful right now.
ck2 2mo ago
Isn't there a big ship out there traveling between the clouds Surprised they don't have a starlink uplink
IAmGraydon 2mo ago
Ugh - I didn't know this will pass over Reykjavik. Would have been fantastic to see from there.
- netsharc 2mo ago
  96% cloud cover over Reykjavik...
plipt 2mo ago
The eclipse should also be visible from space in the "live" satellite imagery on: https://zoom.earth https://zoom.earth
1970-01-01 2mo ago
Also there is solar panel monitoring data. That is also an interesting watch: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES/live/five_minutes https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES/live/five_minute...
- Angostura 2mo ago
  My electric company are paying me to discharge my solar batteries during the eclipse. Nice
ck2 2mo ago
NASA https://www.youtube.com/live/rSvCuSQhC3w https://www.youtube.com/live/rSvCuSQhC3w ESA https://www.youtube.com/live/DRDx2xDR8NA https://www.youtube.com/live/DRDx2xDR8NA VirtualTelescope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfnV0FOgfE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfnV0FOgfE Royal Observatory Greenwich https://www.youtube.com/live/X_lWDBTZdrY https://www.youtube.com/live/X_lWDBTZdrY
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moralestapia 2mo ago
Eclipse + perseids, which means people in Iceland/Spain will see shooting stars when the skies go dark, wow! How often does this happen? Like, never?
- storus 2mo ago
  Don't forget 6-planet alignment.
  - ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
    Aligned with what, exactly? It is true that 6 planets have found themselves on the night-side: excluding Venus (currently an "Evening Star"); with Pluto setting just before Mercury and Jupiter rise. But the chances of seeing them all aren't great; Jupiter's only about 10° away from the Sun as it rises. Uranus and Neptune, as always, are far too dim to see without a good telescope. But they are not aligned with one another, and not particularly aligned with anything in the sky. 6 planets on the night-side is not a rare occurrence by any means. It is just the stupidity of social media clickbait that promotes these "Planetary Parades" as something exciting. Just go see planets. There are plenty of opportunities. Sometimes they are even in conjunction with one another. Now is not one of those times.
    - lloeki 2mo ago
      > Aligned with what, exactly? The ecliptic plane? Which all planets are aligned onto so people take a ruler put and are like "OMG planets align" when they end up in the same rough patch of the sky.
    - storus 2mo ago
      I mean the whole eclipse was shortly before the sunset and shortly after the sunset you could see 6 planets nearby. That's quite unique, don't you think?
      - ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
        No. It would not be unique if it were true, and what you said is false. "Unique" is a one-time occurrence. Perhaps we could say a unique alignment is once in a human lifetime. There will be more eclipses, and the planets are nearly always there to be found! Everything in our solar system is cyclical! During totality, you may possibly have glimpsed Venus, Mercury, Jupiter. Shortly after the sunset, only one planet was visible (besides Earth): Venus. The others were below the horizon. See my GP post. I don't know what you mean by "nearby". Jupiter and Mercury are quite close, and making a closer approach within a couple of days. The planets, as sibling points out, are strung out along the ecliptic plane. From our vantage point on Earth, there are wide distances between most. There is a very wide distance across the sky for the set of six. The set of six planets are on the night side and they are most visible just before sunrise. Not after sunset. Check your reliable websites: NASA, ESA, Sky & Telescope, EarthSky. Check a reliable simulation app, such as Stellarium. Don't trust your randos on social media.
v-mdev 2mo ago
I do think that it's really worth it to see the eclipse with the glasses [1]. Something also very beautiful is to see other amazing things like the shadows it creates through the trees [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyiFxGlrONQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyiFxGlrONQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93BIHjI4KY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93BIHjI4KY
jerry6688 2mo ago
Where Can I see it clearly
ogig 2mo ago
Extremely happy to live in a place where vision is perfect and with a clear day. Going out for a walk soon to find a quiet spot and enjoy.
runarberg 2mo ago
Missing the official RÚV stream from Látrabjarg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0EQtb747n8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0EQtb747n8 RÚV also has special programing around the event here: https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-08-12-almyrkvastofan-i-beinni-utsendingu-483660 https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-08-12-almyrkvastofan... And the Björk DJ-ing the eclipse is broadcasted on RÚV’s radio station Rás 1: https://www.ruv.is/utvarp/beint/ras1 https://www.ruv.is/utvarp/beint/ras1
orsenthil 2mo ago
Eclipses have a special consequence to the human history. It is noted by Asimov that the first correct prediction of the Eclipse was done in May 28, 585 by Thales of Miletus and this event is considered the "Birth of Science". It took approximately 1500 years from the first (recorded) observation of eclipse (in china), the correct prediction of the solar eclipse in advance. This is truly marvelous. Incidentally, unknown and not connected with the prediction, during the same eclipse, a 5 year battle between Medes and the Lydians came to stop as the armies got scared, if it was a divine intervention and they let their arms down.
- jacobolus 2mo ago
  Thales' supposed prediction of a solar eclipse is not considered plausible by experts in the history of astronomy. At the time and for long afterward there was no sufficiently accurate data / theory to predict solar eclipses. There are a wide range of speculations about what Herodotus might have meant by the relevant passage: > [...] another combat took place in the sixth year, in the course of which, just as the battle was growing warm, day was on a sudden changed into night. This event had been foretold by Thales, the Milesian, who forewarned the Ionians of it, fixing for it the very year in which it actually took place. The Medes and Lydians, when they observed the change, ceased fighting, and were alike anxious to have terms of peace agreed on. Herodotus doesn't give any additional details. Later people assumed he must have meant a solar eclipse and the one of the only ones that makes sense for the place is the one of 485 BC, but there are plenty of historical details that make that seem dubious. For example, that eclipse would have arrived around sunset, and one of the kings Herodotus mentioned apparently died about 10 years before that.
  - jacobolus 2mo ago
    Sorry, typo: 585 BC
  - utopcell 2mo ago
    It is well documented that the Antikythera mechanism could predict solar and lunar eclipses. The device's operation was based on 7th century BC Babylonian astronomy, specifically the Saros cycle, and Greek astronomy. The theory and data was definitely present in Thales' time.
jdleesmiller 2mo ago
(Plug) If you’re watching in person and want to be sure you’re in a place that will see the eclipse, I built a little web app to help with that [1]. It also has cloud data forecast overlayed for Spain. [1] https://jdlm.info/eclipse-locator/ https://jdlm.info/eclipse-locator/
Fnoord 2mo ago
Goes very well with music by Total Eclipse [1] [1] https://www.discogs.com/artist/516-Total-Eclipse https://www.discogs.com/artist/516-Total-Eclipse
- ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
  I'm a bit late; just gonna leave this here. If you're a nerd like me, either horrifying or hilarious. Perhaps both. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in Klingon https://youtu.be/Tl-12jfiwcQ?si=dgpBH2H9R6RbF_xv https://youtu.be/Tl-12jfiwcQ?si=dgpBH2H9R6RbF_xv
Bloomy22 2mo ago
Live streamg from IAC (Canary Islands) https://www.youtube.com/@iacvideos/streams https://www.youtube.com/@iacvideos/streams
tgtweak 2mo ago
https://eclipsefan.org/ https://eclipsefan.org/ Posting this from a HN post a few days ago - one of the better "where is the eclipse currently" trackers that isn't currently ddossed. adding that there are some great webcams in santander on youtube that you can watch as it starts in a few minutes: https://www.youtube.com/@tendnetworks https://www.youtube.com/@tendnetworks
lanewinfield 2mo ago
Hilariously this is successfully tracking these cameras being overloaded with requests in real time.
pelagicAustral 2mo ago
I was supposed to enjoy the show of a lifetime, instead the sky is covered in clouds hahah, maybe in another life...
- masklinn 2mo ago
  FWIW there’s a better one next year which skirts through southern spain and norther Africa.
  - potamic 2mo ago
    What makes it better?
    - masklinn 2mo ago
      Higher magnitude (coverage) at maximum, and because it'll be late morning the totality will last much longer. Also almost entirely over land, where this one was mostly over the ocean.
explorigin 2mo ago
Unfortunately, camera white balance seems to diminish the effect compared to actually being there. But it's something. Now imagine that the weather got 10 deg (F) colder, the birds are chirping because they think it's bedtime and your circadian rhythm is nagging you in the back of your head: "this ain't right"
- masklinn 2mo ago
  TBF it’s quite late in the evening already so in the places where this is happening none of it is as off as it is when the eclipse occurs mid-day.
rootusrootus 2mo ago
Modern camera sensors are so good at light gathering that sometimes the only thing that really looks different is that you see lights turn on and they seem overly bright compared to surroundings. I get the same effect on my home camera, which can make a weak streetlight level of illumination look like daytime and the only tell is that the neighbors porch lights are exceedingly bright. Which is to say, it's underwhelming to see a solar eclipse on a webcam.
crabbuh 2mo ago
Crowd at Cabo Fisterra are dancing and having a good time. Thanks for sharing.
dabedee 2mo ago
I just saw it from the lake shore and it was beautiful.
storus 2mo ago
The main camera on YouTube from Leon, Spain, completely missed corona...
alecsm 2mo ago
I took this picture just after it when completely dark. https://imgur.com/5kz8VyA https://imgur.com/5kz8VyA
ticklemyelmo 2mo ago
The interesting map will be the subsequent Google searches for "Me duelen los ojos". https://coywolf.com/news/seo/people-searching-eyes-hurt-after-eclipse-spike-after-solar-eclipse/ https://coywolf.com/news/seo/people-searching-eyes-hurt-afte...
alkyon 2mo ago
Saw it today in Zaragoza. Corona was amazing but what took my breath away when I looked through my binoculars were pink (fuchsia?) prominences close to the solar disk. As describes here they are in fact plasma structures: https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/space-photo-of-the-week-nasa-spots-enormous-pink-flames-during-total-solar-eclipse-what-are-they https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/space-photo-of-the... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence
numpad0 2mo ago
The pattern looks like the Mastodon logo
anthk 2mo ago
I was there, a 3 minutes walk from home in Northern Spain. It wasn't as charming as I expected, but the environment with cheerful people looked fine.
ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
Best Total Solar Eclipse Photos | EarthSky | https://youtu.be/KVgZ4k9hRW4?is=8w4sanOuLRMC9Ija https://youtu.be/KVgZ4k9hRW4?is=8w4sanOuLRMC9Ija

513 points by zoenolan 2mo ago

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embedding-shape 2mo ago

This is great, can easily see what spots are overfilled with people or not :) I'm still thinking about where exactly I'll go to see it, was thinking Calafell or Vilanova as they're nearby and easily accessible, but probably half of Barcelona thinks the same so better to go a bit inland. Probably I'll end up just outside Lleida I think. Any more Spanish HNers (or temporary visitors) who are going to any specific places to see it? :)

davidricodias 2mo ago
Colmenar Viejo seems a great spot ;)
- embedding-shape 2mo ago
  Only 7 hours away :D I'm in the Maresme area, so probably will end up between València and Tarragona on some mountain :) Thanks for the tip though, I'll forward it to my Madrid friends.
hagen8 2mo ago
Mountains close to leon?
iancuandrei 2mo ago
I'll go somewhere around Bilbao
Al-Khwarizmi 2mo ago
I'm from A Coruña so I should be able to just go down to the street, walk like 100 m and see it. I just hope clouds don't spoil the show (at the moment it's looking good, but here you never know).
- embedding-shape 2mo ago
  How it ended up? South of Catalunya was clear sky as far as the eye could see, was a great evening :) We got maybe 30-40 seconds of totality I think in the end.
  - Al-Khwarizmi 2mo ago
    It ended up very unlucky... the forecast was good, the sky was totally clear at 6 pm, but clouds quickly started to form and in the total phase it was fully covered. I got mad and ragebooked a flight to Málaga to see next year's one :D
    - embedding-shape 2mo ago
      Oh no, that's sad! Better luck next year indeed! We're thinking of Tunisia instead, take advantage and visit our African neighbors across the sea :)
egesko 2mo ago
I'm in Valencia, planning to watch it from the beach.
- ravroid 2mo ago
  Also in Valencia and the beach is a great idea.
jegea 2mo ago
A little too late to travel from Barcelona, but anywhere in the province of Teruel or the east part of Guadalajara is inside totality area, will have great weather, clear skies and is endemically underpopulated, so, even with eclipse-chasers coming for the occasion, it will be orders of magnitude less crowded than the coast. As for myself, I'll be watching it from here: https://theeclipse.app/2026-total/maps/default?lng=-3.5627064170823814&lat=42.52472295942496&z=5.525076535251974&markedLng=-1.325497626295089&markedLat=40.839047235751565&markedExpanded=true&markedShadow=true https://theeclipse.app/2026-total/maps/default?lng=-3.562706...
- jegea 2mo ago
  Free bonus: These areas are generally quite high over sea level (like ~1000m or so) and have very low light contamination, so the night sky is great. So, if you wait 3-4 hours after the eclipse, you'll be able to enjoy a great moonless sky, with plenty of stars, the Milky Way and, hopefully, some Perseids!!
- embedding-shape 2mo ago
  I love Teruel in general, didn't have time to go that far though as you mentioned! We ended up heading towards Tarragona, got tired of the traffic and stopped at Cubelles/Cunit, ended on top of a parking garage of Mercadona with a bunch of other people. Was perfect, clear sky and close enough to home :) I think we ended up getting 30-40 seconds of totality or so, but lost count as I was watching it.

xanthine 2mo ago

Sorry for my ignorance, but can someone please explain what I'm looking at here?

embedding-shape 2mo ago
Today there is a eclipse, the map shows where the eclipse will be. In the path of the eclipse, there are also a ton of live webcams, and this map shows those and let you preview the webcams. Does it make sense now?
- rob74 2mo ago
  Even more specifically, it will start off over Greenland, continue over western Iceland and then finish with the sunset in northeastern Spain and the Balearic Islands.
  - voidUpdate 2mo ago
    If you pan to the right, it shows that it actually starts in a bit of russia
    - plorg 2mo ago
      That area (Taymyr Peninsula) looks crazy remote and inaccessible. It would be wild to be there, let alone experience an eclipse there. I think it might even be illegal to do so without a permit, though I'm also curious what enforcement looks like in an area so far from what we think of as normal infrastructure.
      - embedding-shape 2mo ago
        > I think it might even be illegal to do so without a permit Do what, just visit? Seems to be public land as far as I can see, and very empty on top of that, I don't think anyone would mind you being there to see an eclipse :)
      - voidUpdate 2mo ago

4gotunameagain 2mo ago

Really cool. I'm quite curious as to where the webcam data came from, as it seems to be from various websites/sources.

v-mdev 2mo ago
I'm curious too

Tornhoof 2mo ago

Sierra de Guadarrama - Puerto de Cotos https://www.infonieve.es/espacio-nordico/puerto-de-cotos/webcams/ https://www.infonieve.es/espacio-nordico/puerto-de-cotos/web... looks decent, different views, good weather.

Tornhoof 2mo ago
While the Webcam has a good View, according to current images, it only updates every 5 minutes, e.g. 20:30h 57s and the totality at that location starts 30s later.

moron4hire 2mo ago

I took my kids out of school and took an unplanned day off work in the middle of an important meeting series to drive 5 hours west from Virginia to Ohio to see the last eclipse. The schools and my boss were both yelling at me, both saying the eclipse wasn't a good enough excuse. I'm sorry, but it definitely was. I am so glad I did that. I would do it again in a heartbeat.

Uncle_Brumpus 2mo ago
I drove ~3 hours to the Vermont-Canada border... and then drove 14 hours home. I'd also do it again in a heartbeat. I almost signed up for a live-work program for a big music festival happening in Iceland, but the flights (the only thing not covered) were astronomically expensive and I had already made plans with my dad last weekend, and he's getting older so I really didn't want to bail on him. I would love to sit atop the Rock of Gibraltar (with 47,000 other people) for the next one, Aug 2 2027, but that is likely also a pipe-dream, because NORMAL flights to Gibraltar are already too expensive for me.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2mo ago
  I also report strange time anomalies. I blasted to Burlington from Nashua early morning and it took ~3 hrs to get there and ~7 hrs to get home...in a manual transmission. I'd do it again too, life changing experience.
  - flymasterv 2mo ago
    Boston to Bingham, Maine in about 4 hours. I was in my car and headed home about 10 seconds after totality ended and made it home in 5 hours. Totally worth it.
alnwlsn 2mo ago
Both myself and my boss took off work to see the last one. Though unplanned it was not, as eclipses can be predicted centuries in advance. I intended to see it before even working there. Looking forward to the next local one in 2045.

matsemann 2mo ago

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2026-august-12 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2026-august-12 Nice page showing where it will be, with times and visualizations for any point/city.

DerDerDaIst 2mo ago
Lovely page thx. Means for aljezur portugal we´ll experience a totallity?

LawrenceKerr 2mo ago

Doesn't seem like the best of weather now in Iceland, hopefully it clears up. Otherwise it would suck for the people who have planned the trip months if not years in advance only to get a clouded sky, but that's always the risk with astrotravel.

benoliver999 2mo ago
Surely the smart money is to go to Spain
- embedding-shape 2mo ago
  We do get cloudy days too sometimes :) Although today it is looking fairly sunny all over the place: https://i.imgur.com/4LK7xo8.png https://i.imgur.com/4LK7xo8.png
- pzo 2mo ago
  there is another total solar eclipse next year in 2027 in south of spain if the first time not lucky
  - wbl 2mo ago
    I'm watching that one in Egypt.
- otherme123 2mo ago
  One of the best places would be Asturias, which has also incredibly scenery worth the travel, but it was too cloudy in many places. Not all of Spain is sun and beaches!
  - LunaSea 2mo ago
    The best spot (imo) was Leon, just in the south of Asturias where the sky was clear.
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MadrasTh0rn 2mo ago

Very cool

NKosmatos 2mo ago

Thanks for posting this, most of us won’t be able to view the eclipse but having a few webcams really helps to get the feeling! Hoping to be able to see the great eclipse of 2027 live ;-) https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2027-august-2 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2027-august-2

JaumeGreen 2mo ago
Pictures do not do justice, and in my opinion the most photographed part (moon covering the sun) is not the most interesting one. How the light changes, the corona when it's total darkness, and the light coming back again. All this is hundreds of times better than the occlusion (IMHO). Watching the moon in front of the sun, with the corona around it, it's a memory that I plan to hold on for as long as I can.

aljgz 2mo ago

Living in Vancouver, I traveled to Toronto to watch the Eclipse in 2024. We faced a nasty cloud, and had to drive hundreds of kilometers (hundreds of miles) to get a reasonably good view. On the drive back I decided that I'll travel for the one that's happening today, and here I am, in Sierra, with some cool people. Solar eclipses happen rarely enough, and frequently enough, to act as milestones in my life: I can review what happened since the previous one, and make a plan for the next one. They are some of the most magnificent natural phenomena, much more interesting than what's expected. The only other one that I got to see in perfect conditions was in my home town, Isfahan in 1999. I hope this one is perfectly clear again, and I have some resolutions for the next one.

Insanity 2mo ago
I was in Toronto in 2024. Wanted to travel to EU for the next one (I’m from EU) but sadly couldn’t make that happen. Enjoy the eclipse!
- tamimio 2mo ago
  Same here! I couldn’t make it this year so hopefully next one!
sokoloff 2mo ago
> hundreds of kilometers (hundreds of miles) This units “conversion” earned a chuckle from me…
tnguy3n 2mo ago
I flew to Toronto to watch the 2024 Eclipse as well. Super disappointing experience due to the clouds and seeing so many beautiful pictures of totality beforehand.
- netsharc 2mo ago
  It's currently cloudy in Iceland. Hah, hotel prices doubled, and they're not even getting any show ("they" is almost "we" because I was thinking of travelling there).

jonty 2mo ago

This is mine! Built it quickly in 2024 for the US eclipse [1] and finished minutes before totality started. I completely forgot about it until a friend asked this morning. Coordinating a DDOS on cameras across Iceland and Spain was not on my to-do list for today. Fingers crossed it doesn't break for you all - I will be watching it with my own eyes this time. [1] https://jonty.github.io/2024_eclipse_webcams/ https://jonty.github.io/2024_eclipse_webcams/

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v-mdev 2mo ago
Some of the webcams doesn't work, for example in Torreblanca, Castellón. I guess it's normal
blazarquasar 2mo ago
For mallorca, a lot of the cameras are pointing in the wrong direction and many of the ones pointing in the right direction are missing. Just from a quick glance at this map: https://visiona.conectabalear.com/map/ https://visiona.conectabalear.com/map/ Thanks for this tho! Didn’t think of checking for cameras!
ck2 2mo ago
does openstreetmap have a realtime weather layer perhaps that can be turned on to see who is going to be affected by cloudcover?
- andai 2mo ago
  Maybe Windy.com has a layer for that. I also use https://www.sat24.com/ https://www.sat24.com/ (I think it only covers Europe)
rdiddly 2mo ago
How did you find all these cameras? Am I stupid?

lifestyleguru 2mo ago

I'm declaring that sun will die a over northern Spain and western Iceland by the end of the day.

hno8a34nwn 2mo ago

Was just dealing with this yesterday

rimworld 2mo ago

cool -thx

christkv 2mo ago

We are going to get the full solar eclipse, but to be honest I'm going to enjoy the transitions more than the actual eclipse itself. It's not like the glasses will give you a great view of the actual sun itself compared to a live professional camera setup so I'll be having the tv on to se the "filtered" view of the sun directly instead of trying to stare at it. I'll peak a glance once in awhile.

ceravis 2mo ago
If you're going to be within the path of totality, I strongly urge you to go outside and look up at the eclipse during totality with the naked eye, it's safe: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safety/#eye-safety-total https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safety/#eye-safety-total Truly a transcendent experience: the shadow of the moon rushing across the land toward you, the air suddenly cooling, the sunset horizon in every direction, the ring of the sun's corona surrounding the silhouette of the moon... There's no other natural phenomenon like it, and video/photos truly don't do it justice!
- v-mdev 2mo ago
  Amazing, duly noted
- christkv 2mo ago
  Will definitely do thanks

gillesjacobs 2mo ago

Cool, there is no check on the direction of the camera. Various camera's I checked do not seem to point in the direction of the sun during totality. It does filter candidate cameras down though.

dorienh 2mo ago

Sad to be in Singapore where eclipse is not visible!

dolmen 2mo ago
Next year: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/singapore?iso=20270802 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/singapore?iso=2027080...

fxn 2mo ago

On a Virgin cruise near Ibiza, getting ready for it before sunset. Anyone else in the cruise say hello!

thom 2mo ago
Different cruise in the Bay of Biscay but hello!

Longwelwind 2mo ago

Does anyone know if there will be any live feed of the earth viewed from space during the eclipse?

HelloUsername 2mo ago
Maybe here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSvCuSQhC3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSvCuSQhC3w

rythmshifter 2mo ago

I get access blocked errors all over the screen

rythmshifter 2mo ago

I get "access blocked, referer is required" errors tiled all over the screen

dolmen 2mo ago

Don't bother looking at Iceland: weather is awful right now.

ck2 2mo ago

Isn't there a big ship out there traveling between the clouds Surprised they don't have a starlink uplink

IAmGraydon 2mo ago

Ugh - I didn't know this will pass over Reykjavik. Would have been fantastic to see from there.

netsharc 2mo ago
96% cloud cover over Reykjavik...

plipt 2mo ago

The eclipse should also be visible from space in the "live" satellite imagery on: https://zoom.earth https://zoom.earth

1970-01-01 2mo ago

Also there is solar panel monitoring data. That is also an interesting watch: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES/live/five_minutes https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES/live/five_minute...

Angostura 2mo ago
My electric company are paying me to discharge my solar batteries during the eclipse. Nice

ck2 2mo ago

NASA https://www.youtube.com/live/rSvCuSQhC3w https://www.youtube.com/live/rSvCuSQhC3w ESA https://www.youtube.com/live/DRDx2xDR8NA https://www.youtube.com/live/DRDx2xDR8NA VirtualTelescope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfnV0FOgfE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfnV0FOgfE Royal Observatory Greenwich https://www.youtube.com/live/X_lWDBTZdrY https://www.youtube.com/live/X_lWDBTZdrY

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moralestapia 2mo ago

Eclipse + perseids, which means people in Iceland/Spain will see shooting stars when the skies go dark, wow! How often does this happen? Like, never?

storus 2mo ago
Don't forget 6-planet alignment.
- ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
  Aligned with what, exactly? It is true that 6 planets have found themselves on the night-side: excluding Venus (currently an "Evening Star"); with Pluto setting just before Mercury and Jupiter rise. But the chances of seeing them all aren't great; Jupiter's only about 10° away from the Sun as it rises. Uranus and Neptune, as always, are far too dim to see without a good telescope. But they are not aligned with one another, and not particularly aligned with anything in the sky. 6 planets on the night-side is not a rare occurrence by any means. It is just the stupidity of social media clickbait that promotes these "Planetary Parades" as something exciting. Just go see planets. There are plenty of opportunities. Sometimes they are even in conjunction with one another. Now is not one of those times.
  - lloeki 2mo ago
    > Aligned with what, exactly? The ecliptic plane? Which all planets are aligned onto so people take a ruler put and are like "OMG planets align" when they end up in the same rough patch of the sky.
  - storus 2mo ago
    I mean the whole eclipse was shortly before the sunset and shortly after the sunset you could see 6 planets nearby. That's quite unique, don't you think?
    - ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
      No. It would not be unique if it were true, and what you said is false. "Unique" is a one-time occurrence. Perhaps we could say a unique alignment is once in a human lifetime. There will be more eclipses, and the planets are nearly always there to be found! Everything in our solar system is cyclical! During totality, you may possibly have glimpsed Venus, Mercury, Jupiter. Shortly after the sunset, only one planet was visible (besides Earth): Venus. The others were below the horizon. See my GP post. I don't know what you mean by "nearby". Jupiter and Mercury are quite close, and making a closer approach within a couple of days. The planets, as sibling points out, are strung out along the ecliptic plane. From our vantage point on Earth, there are wide distances between most. There is a very wide distance across the sky for the set of six. The set of six planets are on the night side and they are most visible just before sunrise. Not after sunset. Check your reliable websites: NASA, ESA, Sky & Telescope, EarthSky. Check a reliable simulation app, such as Stellarium. Don't trust your randos on social media.

v-mdev 2mo ago

I do think that it's really worth it to see the eclipse with the glasses [1]. Something also very beautiful is to see other amazing things like the shadows it creates through the trees [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyiFxGlrONQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyiFxGlrONQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93BIHjI4KY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93BIHjI4KY

jerry6688 2mo ago

Where Can I see it clearly

ogig 2mo ago

Extremely happy to live in a place where vision is perfect and with a clear day. Going out for a walk soon to find a quiet spot and enjoy.

runarberg 2mo ago

Missing the official RÚV stream from Látrabjarg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0EQtb747n8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0EQtb747n8 RÚV also has special programing around the event here: https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-08-12-almyrkvastofan-i-beinni-utsendingu-483660 https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-08-12-almyrkvastofan... And the Björk DJ-ing the eclipse is broadcasted on RÚV’s radio station Rás 1: https://www.ruv.is/utvarp/beint/ras1 https://www.ruv.is/utvarp/beint/ras1

orsenthil 2mo ago

Eclipses have a special consequence to the human history. It is noted by Asimov that the first correct prediction of the Eclipse was done in May 28, 585 by Thales of Miletus and this event is considered the "Birth of Science". It took approximately 1500 years from the first (recorded) observation of eclipse (in china), the correct prediction of the solar eclipse in advance. This is truly marvelous. Incidentally, unknown and not connected with the prediction, during the same eclipse, a 5 year battle between Medes and the Lydians came to stop as the armies got scared, if it was a divine intervention and they let their arms down.

jacobolus 2mo ago
Thales' supposed prediction of a solar eclipse is not considered plausible by experts in the history of astronomy. At the time and for long afterward there was no sufficiently accurate data / theory to predict solar eclipses. There are a wide range of speculations about what Herodotus might have meant by the relevant passage: > [...] another combat took place in the sixth year, in the course of which, just as the battle was growing warm, day was on a sudden changed into night. This event had been foretold by Thales, the Milesian, who forewarned the Ionians of it, fixing for it the very year in which it actually took place. The Medes and Lydians, when they observed the change, ceased fighting, and were alike anxious to have terms of peace agreed on. Herodotus doesn't give any additional details. Later people assumed he must have meant a solar eclipse and the one of the only ones that makes sense for the place is the one of 485 BC, but there are plenty of historical details that make that seem dubious. For example, that eclipse would have arrived around sunset, and one of the kings Herodotus mentioned apparently died about 10 years before that.
- jacobolus 2mo ago
  Sorry, typo: 585 BC
- utopcell 2mo ago
  It is well documented that the Antikythera mechanism could predict solar and lunar eclipses. The device's operation was based on 7th century BC Babylonian astronomy, specifically the Saros cycle, and Greek astronomy. The theory and data was definitely present in Thales' time.

jdleesmiller 2mo ago

(Plug) If you’re watching in person and want to be sure you’re in a place that will see the eclipse, I built a little web app to help with that [1]. It also has cloud data forecast overlayed for Spain. [1] https://jdlm.info/eclipse-locator/ https://jdlm.info/eclipse-locator/

Fnoord 2mo ago

Goes very well with music by Total Eclipse [1] [1] https://www.discogs.com/artist/516-Total-Eclipse https://www.discogs.com/artist/516-Total-Eclipse

ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
I'm a bit late; just gonna leave this here. If you're a nerd like me, either horrifying or hilarious. Perhaps both. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in Klingon https://youtu.be/Tl-12jfiwcQ?si=dgpBH2H9R6RbF_xv https://youtu.be/Tl-12jfiwcQ?si=dgpBH2H9R6RbF_xv

Bloomy22 2mo ago

Live streamg from IAC (Canary Islands) https://www.youtube.com/@iacvideos/streams https://www.youtube.com/@iacvideos/streams

tgtweak 2mo ago

https://eclipsefan.org/ https://eclipsefan.org/ Posting this from a HN post a few days ago - one of the better "where is the eclipse currently" trackers that isn't currently ddossed. adding that there are some great webcams in santander on youtube that you can watch as it starts in a few minutes: https://www.youtube.com/@tendnetworks https://www.youtube.com/@tendnetworks

lanewinfield 2mo ago

Hilariously this is successfully tracking these cameras being overloaded with requests in real time.

pelagicAustral 2mo ago

I was supposed to enjoy the show of a lifetime, instead the sky is covered in clouds hahah, maybe in another life...

masklinn 2mo ago
FWIW there’s a better one next year which skirts through southern spain and norther Africa.
- potamic 2mo ago
  What makes it better?
  - masklinn 2mo ago
    Higher magnitude (coverage) at maximum, and because it'll be late morning the totality will last much longer. Also almost entirely over land, where this one was mostly over the ocean.

explorigin 2mo ago

Unfortunately, camera white balance seems to diminish the effect compared to actually being there. But it's something. Now imagine that the weather got 10 deg (F) colder, the birds are chirping because they think it's bedtime and your circadian rhythm is nagging you in the back of your head: "this ain't right"

masklinn 2mo ago
TBF it’s quite late in the evening already so in the places where this is happening none of it is as off as it is when the eclipse occurs mid-day.

rootusrootus 2mo ago

Modern camera sensors are so good at light gathering that sometimes the only thing that really looks different is that you see lights turn on and they seem overly bright compared to surroundings. I get the same effect on my home camera, which can make a weak streetlight level of illumination look like daytime and the only tell is that the neighbors porch lights are exceedingly bright. Which is to say, it's underwhelming to see a solar eclipse on a webcam.

crabbuh 2mo ago

Crowd at Cabo Fisterra are dancing and having a good time. Thanks for sharing.

dabedee 2mo ago

I just saw it from the lake shore and it was beautiful.

storus 2mo ago

The main camera on YouTube from Leon, Spain, completely missed corona...

alecsm 2mo ago

I took this picture just after it when completely dark. https://imgur.com/5kz8VyA https://imgur.com/5kz8VyA

ticklemyelmo 2mo ago

The interesting map will be the subsequent Google searches for "Me duelen los ojos". https://coywolf.com/news/seo/people-searching-eyes-hurt-after-eclipse-spike-after-solar-eclipse/ https://coywolf.com/news/seo/people-searching-eyes-hurt-afte...

alkyon 2mo ago

Saw it today in Zaragoza. Corona was amazing but what took my breath away when I looked through my binoculars were pink (fuchsia?) prominences close to the solar disk. As describes here they are in fact plasma structures: https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/space-photo-of-the-week-nasa-spots-enormous-pink-flames-during-total-solar-eclipse-what-are-they https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/space-photo-of-the... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence

numpad0 2mo ago

The pattern looks like the Mastodon logo

anthk 2mo ago

I was there, a 3 minutes walk from home in Northern Spain. It wasn't as charming as I expected, but the environment with cheerful people looked fine.

ButlerianJihad 2mo ago

Best Total Solar Eclipse Photos | EarthSky | https://youtu.be/KVgZ4k9hRW4?is=8w4sanOuLRMC9Ija https://youtu.be/KVgZ4k9hRW4?is=8w4sanOuLRMC9Ija