Nördnytt! 🤓2026 Eclipse Webcams
- jonty - 18395 sekunder sedanThis 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.
- orsenthil - 5448 sekunder sedanEclipses 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 - 18727 sekunder sedanLiving 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.
- rootusrootus - 860 sekunder sedanModern 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.
- explorigin - 968 sekunder sedanUnfortunately, 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"
- tgtweak - 3369 sekunder sedanhttps://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:
- 1970-01-01 - 14613 sekunder sedanAlso there is solar panel monitoring data. That is also an interesting watch:
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/ES/live/five_minute...
- Tornhoof - 19910 sekunder sedanSierra de Guadarrama - Puerto de Cotos https://www.infonieve.es/espacio-nordico/puerto-de-cotos/web... looks decent, different views, good weather.
- pelagicAustral - 1181 sekunder sedanI was supposed to enjoy the show of a lifetime, instead the sky is covered in clouds hahah, maybe in another life...
- lanewinfield - 1215 sekunder sedanHilariously this is successfully tracking these cameras being overloaded with requests in real time.
- v-mdev - 9801 sekunder sedanI 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
- embedding-shape - 21184 sekunder sedanThis 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? :)
- NKosmatos - 18864 sekunder sedanThanks 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 ;-)
- jdleesmiller - 4911 sekunder sedan(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.
- Bloomy22 - 3677 sekunder sedanLive streamg from IAC (Canary Islands) https://www.youtube.com/@iacvideos/streams
- Fnoord - 4630 sekunder sedanGoes very well with music by Total Eclipse [1]
- jerry6688 - 9794 sekunder sedanWhere Can I see it clearly
- matsemann - 19506 sekunder sedanhttps://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2026-august-12
Nice page showing where it will be, with times and visualizations for any point/city.
- LawrenceKerr - 19356 sekunder sedanDoesn'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.
- gillesjacobs - 17322 sekunder sedanCool, 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 - 20368 sekunder sedanSorry for my ignorance, but can someone please explain what I'm looking at here?
- ogig - 7271 sekunder sedanExtremely happy to live in a place where vision is perfect and with a clear day. Going out for a walk soon to find a quiet spot and enjoy.
- rythmshifter - 17001 sekunder sedanI get access blocked errors all over the screen
- Longwelwind - 17001 sekunder sedanDoes anyone know if there will be any live feed of the earth viewed from space during the eclipse?
- rythmshifter - 16970 sekunder sedanI get "access blocked, referer is required" errors tiled all over the screen
- plipt - 15362 sekunder sedanThe eclipse should also be visible from space in the "live" satellite imagery on:
- dorienh - 17147 sekunder sedanSad to be in Singapore where eclipse is not visible!
- fxn - 17052 sekunder sedanOn a Virgin cruise near Ibiza, getting ready for it before sunset. Anyone else in the cruise say hello!
- 4gotunameagain - 20014 sekunder sedanReally cool. I'm quite curious as to where the webcam data came from, as it seems to be from various websites/sources.
- ck2 - 14416 sekunder sedanNASA 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
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- dolmen - 16934 sekunder sedanDon't bother looking at Iceland: weather is awful right now.
- runarberg - 5631 sekunder sedanMissing the official RÚV stream from Látrabjarg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0EQtb747n8
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
- IAmGraydon - 15617 sekunder sedanUgh - I didn't know this will pass over Reykjavik. Would have been fantastic to see from there.
- moralestapia - 11503 sekunder sedanEclipse + 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 - 15966 sekunder sedanIsn't there a big ship out there traveling between the clouds
Surprised they don't have a starlink uplink
- christkv - 17420 sekunder sedanWe 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.
- hno8a34nwn - 17529 sekunder sedanWas just dealing with this yesterday
- MadrasTh0rn - 19153 sekunder sedanVery cool
- moron4hire - 19773 sekunder sedanI 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.
- rimworld - 17440 sekunder sedancool -thx
- lifestyleguru - 17752 sekunder sedanI'm declaring that sun will die a over northern Spain and western Iceland by the end of the day.