2026 Eclipse Webcams

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/

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.

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

Also there is solar panel monitoring data. That is also an interesting watch:

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

Where Can I see it clearly

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? :)

Sierra de Guadarrama - Puerto de Cotos https://www.infonieve.es/espacio-nordico/puerto-de-cotos/web... looks decent, different views, good weather.

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 ;-)

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2027-august-2

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.

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.

Sorry for my ignorance, but can someone please explain what I'm looking at here?

I get access blocked errors all over the screen

Does anyone know if there will be any live feed of the earth viewed from space during the eclipse?

I get "access blocked, referer is required" errors tiled all over the screen

The eclipse should also be visible from space in the "live" satellite imagery on:

https://zoom.earth

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2026-august-12

Nice page showing where it will be, with times and visualizations for any point/city.

Sad to be in Singapore where eclipse is not visible!

On a Virgin cruise near Ibiza, getting ready for it before sunset. Anyone else in the cruise say hello!

Really cool. I'm quite curious as to where the webcam data came from, as it seems to be from various websites/sources.

Don't bother looking at Iceland: weather is awful right now.

NASA 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

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?

Ugh - I didn't know this will pass over Reykjavik. Would have been fantastic to see from there.

Isn't there a big ship out there traveling between the clouds

Surprised they don't have a starlink uplink

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.

Was just dealing with this yesterday

Very cool

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.

cool -thx

I'm declaring that sun will die a over northern Spain and western Iceland by the end of the day.