How will the Aug 12 eclipse look like from your address?
Details
- External ID
- 49196116
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- How will the Aug 12 eclipse look like from your address?
- Website domain
- eclipse2026times.com
- Launched
- Aug. 6, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
August 12 is a total solar eclipse over Iceland and northern Spain and partially across Europe. In France it'll be visible over 90% (~92% in Paris at 8:17pm).I wanted to know if I can view it and from where (with proper protecting glasses of course :). I built a site to help see it: you type your address (in France only for now, there's a default address you can click on to try it) and it shows you how it'll look like. You can also see the details of the eclipse for multiple cities.Try it here: https://eclipse2026times.com/Basically, using IGN's open data (https://www.ign.fr/), a ray is cast along the sun's azimuth and you'll see if the line of sight is clear. You'll see the fully rendered street in which you'll be able to move around and the tool puts you automatically on the lowest floor from which you can get a clear view to see the eclipse. All done in the browser client-side, nothing server-side.Keep in mind you can't yet see cloud coverage and sometimes building data is outdated. There are probably other improvements to make as well.Let me know what you think and if there's any features you'd like to see.
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- eclipse visualization from location
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A single-purpose astronomical calculator website that takes user geolocation and uses open-source astronomical calculation libraries or ephemeris APIs to render eclipse times and visuals.
Discussion
12 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Limited country coverage - only France and Spain have 3D visualization, Height data missing in many countries using OSM, Geolocation incorrectly assumes France instead of UK, Inaccurate terrain elevation data can flatten hilltops
Feature requests: Implement city search functionality, Add parks/viewpoint locations to simulation, Cloud coverage forecasting, Expand 3D visualization to more countries
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