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jonty 12 hours 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.
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:
Nitpicky, but does it take into account trees, vegetation and buildings? Even without, still looks like a good addition and real easy to use, so not saying it shouldn't exists or anything :)
Please also do a "humanization" pass of the app description which is obviously AI written right now, and remove the fluff and stuff like "that matters more than it sounds" which seems really out of place, you're not writing a blog/Substack ;) Just put what the app is about and what it does, nothing more :)
gizajob 5 hours ago [-]
Great timing
12 hours ago [-]
v-mdev 12 hours ago [-]
Some of the webcams doesn't work, for example in Torreblanca, Castellón. I guess it's normal
does openstreetmap have a realtime weather layer perhaps that can be turned on to see who is going to be affected by cloudcover?
andai 9 hours ago [-]
Maybe Windy.com has a layer for that. I also use https://www.sat24.com/ (I think it only covers Europe)
aljgz 12 hours 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.
sokoloff 10 hours ago [-]
> hundreds of kilometers (hundreds of miles)
This units “conversion” earned a chuckle from me…
Insanity 11 hours 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 11 hours ago [-]
Same here! I couldn’t make it this year so hopefully next one!
tnguy3n 10 hours 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 10 hours 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).
orsenthil 9 hours 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 8 hours 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.
utopcell 3 hours 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.
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.
1970-01-01 11 hours ago [-]
Also there is solar panel monitoring data. That is also an interesting watch:
My electric company are paying me to discharge my solar batteries during the eclipse. Nice
alkyon 5 hours 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:
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.
alecsm 6 hours ago [-]
I took this picture just after it when completely dark.
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? :)
jegea 11 hours 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.
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.
jegea 10 hours 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!!
Al-Khwarizmi 12 hours 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 5 hours 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.
egesko 12 hours ago [-]
I'm in Valencia, planning to watch it from the beach.
ravroid 11 hours ago [-]
Also in Valencia and the beach is a great idea.
iancuandrei 13 hours ago [-]
I'll go somewhere around Bilbao
davidricodias 13 hours ago [-]
Colmenar Viejo seems a great spot ;)
embedding-shape 13 hours 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.
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].
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.
Nice page showing where it will be, with times and visualizations for any point/city.
DerDerDaIst 11 hours ago [-]
Lovely page thx.
Means for aljezur portugal we´ll experience a totallity?
explorigin 8 hours 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 7 hours 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.
LawrenceKerr 13 hours 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.
data-ottawa 8 hours ago [-]
Currently in Keflavík, it is very wet, but I can see a pocket of blue sky in the clouds.
My trip coincides, I’ve been camping across the country and the rain has followed me across the whole island
It has been an incredible trip
Edit: it was rainy and cloudy but still so cool!
jcsager 10 hours ago [-]
Yes, we travelled to Cornwall in 1999 but it was cloudy. Got a marvellous view in Oregon in 2017 though. A friend of mine travels to all the solar eclipses he can wherever they are in the world. That's a bit too obsessive for me though. I'm in Devon this time but only 95% cover.
benoliver999 13 hours ago [-]
Surely the smart money is to go to Spain
otherme123 4 hours 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 3 hours ago [-]
The best spot (imo) was Leon, just in the south of Asturias where the sky was clear.
tiagod 1 hours ago [-]
I live near Lisbon. Checked windy yesterday for cloud forecast, topography, within the center of the totality area, and night sky quality (for the perseids after), and quickly decided on that area. Rented a small commercial van, drove around 6h30 and ended up in a tiny village named Abia de Las Torres, in the top of a small hill surrounded by sunflower fields with a whole bunch of people, with perfect weather (other than some smoky haze from forest fires)
embedding-shape 12 hours 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
pzo 11 hours ago [-]
there is another total solar eclipse next year in 2027 in south of spain if the first time not lucky
wbl 11 hours ago [-]
I'm watching that one in Egypt.
xanthine 13 hours ago [-]
Sorry for my ignorance, but can someone please explain what I'm looking at here?
msdz 13 hours ago [-]
About five hours from now, the sections of Europe indicated on the map will experience a total solar eclipse, with other regions of the continent experiencing a partial one.
The map shows feeds to watch it.
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embedding-shape 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 13 hours ago [-]
If you pan to the right, it shows that it actually starts in a bit of russia
plorg 10 hours 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 5 hours 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 :)
tamimio 11 hours ago [-]
It’s like kik or twitch stream but for nerds (that’s us btw), the live stream is a bunch of live cameras in different cities/countries, these locations today will experience something called totality sun eclipse, it’s when the sun is totally covered, day turns to night, and you see a pretty yet scary ring in the sky instead, it lasts for minutes at best, and it’s a really cool thing to witness in person, but in case you can’t, at least you see it through someone’s lens in a live stream, like that site!
gillesjacobs 12 hours 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.
jdleesmiller 9 hours 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.
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 12 hours 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 10 hours 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 8 hours 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 12 hours 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.
joebates 12 hours ago [-]
I took off work to drive from Houston to Little Rock to see the eclipse at 100% and I'm so glad I did. I can't imagine prioritizing a temporary job over a once in a lifetime event.
I had a colleague who really wanted to see the eclipse but felt bad about taking off from work, so he didn't go. He ended up being laid off within a year. I feel terrible for him. I also learned how important it is to keep perspective on what matters.
artisinal 11 hours ago [-]
In many places in Europe that could have cost you jail time.
moron4hire 9 hours ago [-]
Well good for them I guess
onraglanroad 7 hours ago [-]
There is nowhere in Europe that is true. Why exactly are you posting misinformation?
artisinal 4 hours ago [-]
True in Germany. Schulpflicht.
Why exactly are you posting defamation?
nullhole 9 hours ago [-]
What are you talking about? Where on earth does taking an unplanned day off work get you jail time?
artisinal 4 hours ago [-]
Taking your kids out of school is illegal in many places in Europe. Children are supposed to be in school. And if you are not the assigned pickup that is an automatic national alert for abduction.
moron4hire 3 hours ago [-]
You are such a typical German, afraid of the law. There are laws that are important like murder and stealing and then there are laws that are not important like jaywalking and being a public nuisance. You need to stop treating the latter like the former.
moralestapia 10 hours 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 7 hours ago [-]
Don't forget 6-planet alignment.
ck2 12 hours ago [-]
Isn't there a big ship out there traveling between the clouds
Surprised they don't have a starlink uplink
christkv 12 hours 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.
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 10 hours ago [-]
Amazing, duly noted
christkv 8 hours ago [-]
Will definitely do thanks
hno8a34nwn 12 hours ago [-]
Was just dealing with this yesterday
MadrasTh0rn 13 hours ago [-]
Very cool
rimworld 12 hours ago [-]
cool -thx
lifestyleguru 12 hours ago [-]
I'm declaring that sun will die a over northern Spain and western Iceland by the end of the day.
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/
A simple and elegant project
https://visiona.conectabalear.com/map/
Thanks for this tho! Didn’t think of checking for cameras!
Please also do a "humanization" pass of the app description which is obviously AI written right now, and remove the fluff and stuff like "that matters more than it sounds" which seems really out of place, you're not writing a blog/Substack ;) Just put what the app is about and what it does, nothing more :)
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.
This units “conversion” earned a chuckle from me…
Enjoy the eclipse!
Super disappointing experience due to the clouds and seeing so many beautiful pictures of totality beforehand.
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.
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.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES/live/five_minute...
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/space-photo-of-the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence
Hoping to be able to see the great eclipse of 2027 live ;-)
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2027-august-2
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.
https://imgur.com/5kz8VyA
Any more Spanish HNers (or temporary visitors) who are going to any specific places to see it? :)
As for myself, I'll be watching it from here: https://theeclipse.app/2026-total/maps/default?lng=-3.562706...
I think we ended up getting 30-40 seconds of totality or so, but lost count as I was watching it.
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!!
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
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyiFxGlrONQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93BIHjI4KY
https://coywolf.com/news/seo/people-searching-eyes-hurt-afte...
Which is to say, it's underwhelming to see a solar eclipse on a webcam.
Nice page showing where it will be, with times and visualizations for any point/city.
Means for aljezur portugal we´ll experience a totallity?
My trip coincides, I’ve been camping across the country and the rain has followed me across the whole island
It has been an incredible trip
Edit: it was rainy and cloudy but still so cool!
The map shows feeds to watch it.
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 :)
[1] https://jdlm.info/eclipse-locator/
[1] https://www.discogs.com/artist/516-Total-Eclipse
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" in Klingon https://youtu.be/Tl-12jfiwcQ?si=dgpBH2H9R6RbF_xv
https://zoom.earth
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
RÚV also has special programing around the event here: 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
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.
I had a colleague who really wanted to see the eclipse but felt bad about taking off from work, so he didn't go. He ended up being laid off within a year. I feel terrible for him. I also learned how important it is to keep perspective on what matters.
Why exactly are you posting defamation?
How often does this happen? Like, never?
Surprised they don't have a starlink uplink
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!