Observation by Nick James: Total eclipse from La Revilla

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Nick James

Observer

Nick James

Observed

2026 Aug 12 - 18:30

Uploaded

2026 Aug 13 - 07:36

Objects

The Sun
Eclipse

Equipment

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Exposure

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Location

La Revilla, Spain

Target name

Total eclipse

Title

Total eclipse from La Revilla

About this image

I have a lot of material to process when I get home but this is a quick post to confirm success at La Revilla. I had two telescopes in parallel, one shooting 4K HDR video using a Sony A7s iii, and one doing polarimetry using a Sony polarization sensitive camera. This montage shows the huge prominence visible at second contact and a luminance processed stack of the corona from the polarization camera at mid-eclipse. Totality was really beautiful with the naked eye with the Sun so near the horizon.

The entire population of the village came out to see the eclipse and the whole event was a great experience.

Files associated with this observation

montage.jpg (925.0 kB)

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Comments

Nick James, 2026 Aug 15 - 12:08 UTC

Downsampled and compressed versions of the videos from eclipse day:

https://nickdjames.com/20260812Eclipse/20260812_lowres.mp4

https://nickdjames.com/20260812Eclipse/20260812_lowres_gopro.mp4

Grant Privett, 2026 Aug 15 - 22:40 UTC

Looking forward to the polarised image.

Kwong Man, 2026 Aug 30 - 10:10 UTC

Amazing work and imaging ! The lowres.mp4 would not play on my video app, it need a new codec. Any chance of making it .mp4 with a standard codec (like H264). The lowres_gopro.mp4 link did not work and pointed to the lowres.mp4 link. Thank you.

Nick James, 2026 Aug 31 - 06:07 UTC

I've put a copy of the edited video on Youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_MHZUp6sFY

That should overcome any compatibility problems.

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