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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.

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

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.

Almost got late for the party
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And here it is, the sun cosplaying as Pac-Man
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A great video of the Total #SolarEclipse super-low over Mallorca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00eRH0kTLc4

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.

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).

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.

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

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

RE: #SolarEclipse here: for public safety they should have renamed it "Looking into the Sun only with a certified filter!"

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

Never seen such a weather prediction three days before a Total #SolarEclipse for the very place where I intend to be. ;-) 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/2086472867814772889 for the current cloud forecast for all of Spain, with most places expected to be clear.)

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

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.

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).

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

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/

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.)