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The first processings of the 2026 #SolarEclipse corona by Miloslav Druckmüller are in: http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/Eclipse/Ecl2026s/Trigaza/0-info.htm

Weather forecast - 9 days ahead, but still ... - for the place in Spain where we plan to be for the Total #SolarEclipse (temperature in degrees Celsius, of course).

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Great photo of the total solar eclipse on August 12th, 2026 as witnessed by #mpsgoettingen director Sami K. Solanki in Praia do Lago das Pontes, Spain.
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A group of IMPRS doctoral researchers got to experience the total solar eclipse in Spain yesterday. Here is a picture taken during totality. Location: Mambrilla de Castrejón, Burgos, Spain, Photographer: Betty Tsai.
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Ich habe gestern schon mal geübt für das Event morgen. Leider war es teilweise bewölkt. #solareclipse #photography #fotografie

25 years ago #OTD I observed a long Total #SolarEclipse in #Zambia: lots of pictures in the albums https://www.geocities.ws/skyreports/zam2001/index.html = https://web.archive.org/web/20130529024154/http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/skyreports/zam2001/ and a long story (in German) in https://www.geocities.ws/skyreports/zam2001/bericht.html = https://web.archive.org/web/20120527054554/http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/skyreports/zam2001/bericht.html

Today ESA ran a media briefing about the 12 August Total #SolarEclipse: a recording just dropped at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRWD3D_thFA

Here is another documentary about the looong 11 July 1991 total #SolarEclipse, this time set in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico (where yours truly had been, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5cbMrdb5w - many prominent eclipse chasers and scientists make an appearance, too many of them already deceased by now. And there is also a Canadian documentary at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6qu8vFzvbA - with material from many places including the best corona (and prominences) in minutes 19-22.

Will the #SolarCorona look like this come 12 August and the Total #SolarEclipse? The Spanish government thinks so, based on a #simulation - https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/iac-and-california-based-predictive-science-inc-predict-solar-corona-august-12-eclipse-using-la-palma - by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in collaboration with Predictive Science Inc.: https://www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/2026/julio/MICIU-utiliza-Superordenador-Palma-predecir-corona-solar-eclipse.html

Almost got late for the party
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35 years ago today a particularly long total #SolarEclipse hit Hawaii and Central and South America - of which astronomers on #MaunaKea made ample use as the legendary #WGBH documentary "Eclipse of th Century" shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRI5FEQbn7o = https://archive.org/details/EclipseoftheCentury (my favorite scene is in minute 45-46 when astronomers rush out of a telescope control room during totality to marvel at the eclipse with their own eyes). See also https://diary4dan.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/heute-vor-25-jahren-bei-der-riesen-sofi-in-mexiko and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/das-sind-die-asteroiden-torifune-kamoʻoalewa ("Eine ungewöhnlich lange Totale Sonnenfinsternis") for further memories of that event I've found online 10 years ago and today.

And here it is, the sun cosplaying as Pac-Man
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Just published: #SolarEclipse where you can also observe how the sky colors change all around ... and how people in all directions are reacting to totality.

175 years ago #OTD the Prussian photographer Johann Julius Friedrich #Berkowski took the first photograph of a total #SolarEclipse, seen here in 19th century 'processing': more in https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/julius-berkowski/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20150402161350/http://www.astro.uni-jena.de/~schie/20130000_WittmannSchielicke_Parish_Mitt_Gauss-Ges_Nr_50(2013)_S_37-54.pdf (PDF pages 8-12) and https://time.com/4883424/solar-eclipse-first-photo-taken/ and https://hyperallergic.com/the-first-photographs-of-a-solar-eclipse/ and https://petapixel.com/2017/08/05/first-ever-solar-eclipse-photo-shot-1851/

Still going through numerous recorded webcasts and TV broadcasts of the ecent Total #SolarEclipse on YouTube - and finding to my surprise that many of the experienced groups or large TV channels blew it right at second contact which is arguably the most important moment for the audience: image out of focus, solar crescent just leaving the FOV, using an H-alpha telescope only which is counter-productive for total eclipses etc. From what I've seen so far the clear winner remains the feed from Iceland of all places, mentioned earlier in the thread, and in https://www.facebook.com/groups/SolarEclipseChasers/posts/28259718680290370/ I mention four other interesting cases - and ask for links to other winners. Know any?

Talking about the #SolarEclipse and #Iceland missing out completely as many believe ... but that's not entirely true as the recorded live stream #totality strip shows (the preview image sucks): from 1:02 it got clear 2 minutes and 11 seconds with the Sun 25° up - but the place was so inaccessible that apparently hardly anyone except the TV crew set up there. The feed from which was shown in TV news around the globe, though.

A new perspective on the 12 August Total #SolarEclipse, from a Russian weather satellite on a #Molniya orbit, showing Europe (with few clouds in Spain while Iceland is invisible) from above, in contrast to the slant view from a geostationary wx sat, with the Moon's #umbra proceeding south: two processed stills from the animation https://x.com/conspiracyslyr/status/2091012490360471586 - which lead yet another link-a-thon with more eclipse stuff at the bottom of https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-21-august-2026/

And finally here is a most unexpected picture I just found looking through my #SolarEclipse images from Sahagún, Spain, taken experimentally before totality w/o a filter, for the first time in detail: a bird next to the solar crescent, caught in flight with 1/16,000 second at f/8 and ISO 200 - which the autofocus thankfully found more interesting than the astronomical event in the background ...

A huuuuuuuge collection of links to stories about and sometimes very unusual visuals of the #SolarEclipse this month has just been finished at https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/zahlreiche-blicke-auf-die-sofi-vor-einer-woche/ - next task: looking through and annotating the numerous webcasts of or long and short videos already produced about the eclipse ... but this will naturally take a while longer.

The Total #SolarEclipse filmed from the stratosphere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qotejFGYfs - actual footage in minute 15, 360° version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwpBA5Zo350

Just in - two videos of the Total #SolarEclipse from our observing spot in Sahagún, Spain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkGlwB_ZbNc

Observation of the polarization of the corona during the Total #SolarEclipse a week ago: https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20260818_200723_2bcbb5d9f89017bc - and in https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcAJCThI224/ a rotating filter demonstration.

On a regularly scheduled flight from London to Malaga passengers on one side experienced totality of the recent Total #SolarEclipse: https://thepointsguy.com/news/best-eclipse-view-from-plane/

A great video of the Total #SolarEclipse super-low over Mallorca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00eRH0kTLc4

In continuation of my Sahagún #SolarEclipse totality series here is some fun during second partiality: see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-5-august-2026/#Aug13 for more timesteps (and eclipse pics having come in from elsewhere).

The Moon's umbra racing over Europe during the Total #SolarEclipse yesterday as seen by the geostationary weather satellite MTG-I1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_QQmGeX5dw

And arguably the most amazing #SolarEclipse frontpage today ... which expands into the back page. Eclipse coverage quite often gets so creative, seen it a lot in South Anerica.

RE: #SolarEclipse umbra racing over the planet and into the terminator!

Sneak peak at the outstandingly beautiful Total #SolarEclipse over Sahagún, Spain, 1/2 hour ago: see The eclipse from Sahagún, Spain - see https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid022gFRLYWiWUcgqqTH9dGajFhpXVjTNQ8p39h264ry4oDmMP2ySsUZ26tTQPbVsewLl for 33 quickly processed timesteps.

The outcome ... two Spanish frontpages with the #SolarEclipse today, found in Oviedo, Asturia.

Final Sahagún sunset before the #SolarEclipse, from the primary observing site of our group, overlooking the small city - some sky color / extinction effect from a new big wildfire 33 km to the NW is evident but didn't affect the clarity of the magnified image much. So optimism prevails for tomorrow ...

Could get my hands on five papers from #SolarEclipse day in #Sahagún - here are the two coolest frontpages.

What a Spanish newspaper - Castilla y León edition - is writing about tomorrow's #SolarEclipse today: even more in https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid0baG2MLkHeaL37hij6FaLQwSFvsbYNF7mAqBDtYvbtL8eYMFGuhdp4imV2NJ5f222l

Another visit to our favorite Sahagún bar ... and another regional newspaper found lying around: the Diario de #León had devoted pages 2 to 8 of the August 11 issue to the #SolarEclipse, here the beginning of an article about the events #ESA will be holding there - see also https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/08/A_total_solar_eclipse_is_coming_to_Europe

Cloud prediction for the total #SolarEclipse from https://x.com/AEMET_Esp/status/2085752314086707645 - they think it's already more precise than statistics (which had the northern coast cloudier than the rest, too).

In case you didn't know ... the #SolarEclipse in 5 days is 'powered by Audi' and the 'astronomical event of the century' - or so NG's Spanish edition tells you. :-) Raw impressions from our fabulous trip in the thread https://nitter.net/cosmos4u/status/2085705618271137854#m - turns out to be the best place to post quickly while on the road.

The Spanish weather service now promises reliable cloud forecasts 5 days before the August 12th Total #SolarEclipse: https://www.aemet.es/documentos/es/conocermas/recursos_en_linea/publicaciones_y_estudios/estudios/predictibilidad_nubosidad_eclipse.pdf = the study "Estudio de la predictibilidad de la nubosidad del sistema IFS del Centro Europeo para el eclipse del 12 de agosto 2026" making the case, https://aemetblog.es/2026/08/04/con-cuanta-antelacion-podremos-saber-si-las-nubes-dejaran-ver-el-eclipse-de-2026/ = a blog story summarizing the paper, and https://www.aemet.es/es/web/noticias/2026/08/prediccion_especial_eclipse_2026 = a press release about all the eclipse wx services AEMET will offer starting August 7th - there's a lot to bookmark.

Never seen such a weather prediction two days before a Total #SolarEclipse for the very place where I have just arrived. ;-) This is from https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/vorhersage/3111131-sahagon/xl/euro for Saragún, Spain, where we should arrive tomorrow: see https://nitter.net/cosmos4u/status/2085705618271137854#m for the growing thread with teaser pics from our journey. (And https://nitter.net/AEMET_Esp/status/2086821111417725322#m for the lastest cloud forecast for all of Spain just in, with most places expected to be clear.)