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Posted by zoenolan 5 hours ago

2026 Eclipse Webcams(jonty.github.io)
368 points | 89 comments
jonty 4 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.

[1] https://jonty.github.io/2024_eclipse_webcams/

blazarquasar 3 hours 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/

Thanks for this tho! Didn’t think of checking for cameras!

rdiddly 2 hours ago|||
How did you find all these cameras? Am I stupid?
Snoopfrogg 26 minutes ago|||
Do you have a link to the repo?
js2 8 minutes ago||
https://github.com/Jonty/2026_eclipse_webcams
CSMastermind 1 hour ago|||
Incredibly cool! Thank you for making this.
v-mdev 3 hours ago|||
Some of the webcams doesn't work, for example in Torreblanca, Castellón. I guess it's normal
ck2 3 hours 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 1 hour ago||
Maybe Windy.com has a layer for that. I also use https://www.sat24.com/ (I think it only covers Europe)
orsenthil 45 minutes 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 4 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 2 hours ago||
> hundreds of kilometers (hundreds of miles)

This units “conversion” earned a chuckle from me…

Insanity 2 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 2 hours ago||
Same here! I couldn’t make it this year so hopefully next one!
tnguy3n 2 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 1 hour 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).
tgtweak 10 minutes ago||
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

1970-01-01 3 hours ago||
Also there is solar panel monitoring data. That is also an interesting watch:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES/live/five_minute...

Angostura 3 hours ago|
My electric company are paying me to discharge my solar batteries during the eclipse. Nice
Bloomy22 16 minutes ago||
Live streamg from IAC (Canary Islands) https://www.youtube.com/@iacvideos/streams
Tornhoof 4 hours ago||
Sierra de Guadarrama - Puerto de Cotos https://www.infonieve.es/espacio-nordico/puerto-de-cotos/web... looks decent, different views, good weather.
jdleesmiller 36 minutes 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/

Fnoord 31 minutes ago||
Goes very well with music by Total Eclipse [1]

[1] https://www.discogs.com/artist/516-Total-Eclipse

v-mdev 1 hour 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 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93BIHjI4KY

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