Overview
- The path of totality on 12 August will cross parts of Spain including Oviedo, Burgos, Zaragoza and Mallorca while the Netherlands will experience about a 90 percent partial eclipse that evening.
- A group of fifteen people from Brabant led by astronomer Anton Valks has traveled to eastern Spain to reach a site near Morella and Embalse de Santolea where totality is expected to last about one and a half minutes.
- Local observatories and institutions such as Sterrenwacht Halley and the Forum in Groningen will host public viewing events and offer a limited number of loaner eclipse glasses.
- Retailers report brisk local sales and some sell-outs of certified eclipse viewers in Groningen and surrounding areas, and online orders risk arriving after the eclipse.
- Meteorologists give a cautiously favorable short-term outlook with possible high and mid-level clouds, and official safety advice stresses using certified eclipse glasses or indirect projection methods to view the Sun safely.