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- 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 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93BIHjI4KY
by v-mdev - Really cool. I'm quite curious as to where the webcam data came from, as it seems to be from various websites/sources.
- I'm curious tooby v-mdev
- 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? :)
- Mountains close to leon?by hagen8
- Colmenar Viejo seems a great spot ;)
- I'll go somewhere around Bilbaoby iancuandrei
- I'm in Valencia, planning to watch it from the beach.by egesko
- 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).by Al-Khwarizmi
- 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=-3.562706...
by jegea - NASA https://www.youtube.com/live/rSvCuSQhC3w
ESA https://www.youtube.com/live/DRDx2xDR8NA
VirtualTelescope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfnV0FOgfE
Royal Observatory Greenwich https://www.youtube.com/live/X_lWDBTZdrY
by ck2 - 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 ;-)
by NKosmatos - 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.
by JaumeGreen - I took this picture just after it when completely dark.by alecsm
- Also there is solar panel monitoring data. That is also an interesting watch:
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES/live/five_minute...
by 1970-01-01 - My electric company are paying me to discharge my solar batteries during the eclipse. Niceby Angostura
- Sierra de Guadarrama - Puerto de Cotos https://www.infonieve.es/espacio-nordico/puerto-de-cotos/web... looks decent, different views, good weather.by Tornhoof
- 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.by Tornhoof
- 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...
by alkyon - 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.
by orsenthil - 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.
by jacobolus - 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.
by aljgz - 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.
by tnguy3n - 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!
by Insanity - > hundreds of kilometers (hundreds of miles)
This units “conversion” earned a chuckle from me…
by sokoloff - 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.
by jonty - Incredibly cool! Thank you for making this.by CSMastermind
- Some of the webcams doesn't work, for example in Torreblanca, Castellón. I guess it's normalby v-mdev
- does openstreetmap have a realtime weather layer perhaps that can be turned on to see who is going to be affected by cloudcover?by ck2
- I also released an app last minute for this, got approved 3h ago lol https://apps.apple.com/app/id6797313478by BigBalli