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2026 Eclipse Webcams

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Re: 2026 Eclipse Webcams

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

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

Re: 2026 Eclipse Webcams

#112
post #62

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 place…

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?…

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.

Re: 2026 Eclipse Webcams

#113
post #25

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/

I also released an app last minute for this, got approved 3h ago lol https://apps.apple.com/app/id6797313478

Great timing

Re: 2026 Eclipse Webcams

#115
post #25

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/

I also released an app last minute for this, got approved 3h ago lol https://apps.apple.com/app/id6797313478

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 :)

Re: 2026 Eclipse Webcams

#116

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 place…

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).

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.

Re: 2026 Eclipse Webcams

#117
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...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence

Re: 2026 Eclipse Webcams

#118
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you pan to the right, it shows that it actually starts in a bit of russia

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.

> 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 :)

Re: 2026 Eclipse Webcams

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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.
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