Solar Eclipse 2026

On the afternoon of 12th August 2026, we headed to Fuente Sidres Albergue, a pilgrim hostel on the Camino Way near Burgos in Spain. I failed to get a picture of the hostel, though the site can be found on Google Maps.

It wasn’t much of a place, a small building on a hill with a great view of some wind turbines on the horizon to the West. Later that evening though, with barely a cloud in the sky, we’d have a great view of a Total Solar Eclipse.

There were a couple of hundred of us, mostly here due to being on a trip organised by New Scientist. We set up in rows facing the direction of the sun, and waited in 35°C weather.

It was a clear view of the sun, as the moon began to take a chunk out of it.

As it approached totality, I fumbled the filters on my camera, which meant most of my photos of that were somewhat out of focus. But I got a few of Baily’s Beads, the corona, some solar prominences, and finally the diamond ring (bottom right) as the sun came out of eclipse.

After totality, the sun sunk towards the horizon, where it headed towards the wind turbines. I managed to get some shots of the sun in partial eclipse with the turbines in front of it.

And that was the end of our Solar Eclipse experience for 2026. Definitely worth it.