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:
Some of the webcams doesn't work, for example in Torreblanca, Castellón. I guess it's normal
ck2 [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Maybe Windy.com has a layer for that. I also use https://www.sat24.com/ (I think it only covers Europe)
orsenthil [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
aljgz [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
> hundreds of kilometers (hundreds of miles)
This units “conversion” earned a chuckle from me…
Insanity [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Same here! I couldn’t make it this year so hopefully next one!
tnguy3n [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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).
(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 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].
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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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).
egesko [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm in Valencia, planning to watch it from the beach.
ravroid [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Also in Valencia and the beach is a great idea.
iancuandrei [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'll go somewhere around Bilbao
davidricodias [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Colmenar Viejo seems a great spot ;)
embedding-shape [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Mountains close to leon?
NKosmatos [3 hidden]5 mins 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 ;-)
Nice page showing where it will be, with times and visualizations for any point/city.
DerDerDaIst [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Lovely page thx.
Means for aljezur portugal we´ll experience a totallity?
LawrenceKerr [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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
jcsager [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Surely the smart money is to go to Spain
embedding-shape [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
there is another total solar eclipse next year in 2027 in south of spain if the first time not lucky
wbl [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm watching that one in Egypt.
gillesjacobs [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
xanthine [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Sorry for my ignorance, but can someone please explain what I'm looking at here?
msdz [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
embedding-shape [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
If you pan to the right, it shows that it actually starts in a bit of russia
plorg [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
tamimio [3 hidden]5 mins 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!
rythmshifter [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I get access blocked errors all over the screen
Longwelwind [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Does anyone know if there will be any live feed of the earth viewed from space during the eclipse?
Don't bother looking at Iceland: weather is awful right now.
IAmGraydon [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Ugh - I didn't know this will pass over Reykjavik. Would have been fantastic to see from there.
netsharc [3 hidden]5 mins ago
96% cloud cover over Reykjavik...
moralestapia [3 hidden]5 mins 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?
ck2 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Isn't there a big ship out there traveling between the clouds
Surprised they don't have a starlink uplink
christkv [3 hidden]5 mins 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!
christkv [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Will definitely do thanks
v-mdev [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Amazing, duly noted
hno8a34nwn [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Was just dealing with this yesterday
MadrasTh0rn [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Very cool
moron4hire [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
artisinal [3 hidden]5 mins ago
In many places in Europe that could have cost you jail time.
moron4hire [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Well good for them I guess
nullhole [3 hidden]5 mins ago
What are you talking about? Where on earth does taking an unplanned day off work get you jail time?
joebates [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
rimworld [3 hidden]5 mins ago
cool -thx
lifestyleguru [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm declaring that sun will die a over northern Spain and western Iceland by the end of the day.
HN.zip
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://visiona.conectabalear.com/map/
Thanks for this tho! Didn’t think of checking for cameras!
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.
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.
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://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES/live/five_minute...
[1] https://jdlm.info/eclipse-locator/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyiFxGlrONQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93BIHjI4KY
[1] https://www.discogs.com/artist/516-Total-Eclipse
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...
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!!
Hoping to be able to see the great eclipse of 2027 live ;-)
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2027-august-2
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
The map shows feeds to watch it.
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
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!
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.