Slice 2 · Asturias / Asturies → Palencia

Meloita

Good76 / 100

42.91641, -5.83763 · 1829 m · totality 20:27:51–20:29:39 local, sun 9.9° up on bearing 281°.

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Clearance
+10.1°sun above the skyline at totality
Sun visible to
+0.5°where it is finally lost
Totality
108 sat this exact point
Access
Walk 665 m (road)665 m from the nearest tertiary
Skyline set by
terraingrassland · 3% tree cover
August sight line
56% usable clear 31% · overcast 44% · CERRA 5.5 km, 135 evenings
August overhead
70% usable clear 36% · overcast 30% · ERA5 25 km

The view west

Your skyline, from 5 m ground survey with the trees on top, and the sun across it from first contact to last.

iThe horizontal scale is compass bearing, the vertical is height above the horizon. The red band is totality. The dashed line is how far the sun clears your skyline at that moment, which is the clearance figure in the table above. It is measured from this trace, at the exact pin. A wall or a roof a few tens of metres away counts here, because the survey cannot tell one from a hillside; where that puts the picture at odds with the scored table, both figures are shown and the range of the obstruction is given, so you can see which applies to you.

0°5°10°15°20°270° W275°280°285° WNW290°+10.1° clearC1 19:32totality 20:28C4 21:21heights at 0.75× the width scale

Getting there

Nearest alternatives by road.
SiteDriveDistance
Roadside nr. Sabero80 min72.7 km
Roadside nr. Cistierna89 min82.1 km
Pico Viyao94 min107.5 km
Roadside nr. La Frecha102 min119.1 km

Cloud on the sight line

11 points west, each read at the light's own height. Worst counts.

iThe sun is 10° up, so its light arrives almost sideways and crosses the sky far to the west before it reaches you. Close by it is still near the ground; 50 km out it is at aircraft height. Each point is read at the height the light passes through there. Cloud anywhere on that path hides the sun, whatever the sky above you looks like.

eclipse day12 Aug, 20:30 CEST
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Every cell used, and its forecast at totality
LayerDistanceLight is atBest matchAll modelsMapCell
Near you, low down2.0 km2,180 m……Windy42.9198, -5.8617
3.3 km2,414 m……Windy42.9221, -5.8778
6.7 km3,000 m……Windy42.9279, -5.9179
Further west, higher up6.7 km3,000 m……Windy42.9279, -5.9179
13.7 km4,240 m……Windy42.9399, -6.0024
20.7 km5,486 m……Windy42.9520, -6.0869
27.7 km6,740 m……Windy42.9641, -6.1714
34.7 km8,000 m……Windy42.9761, -6.2559
Far west, very high34.7 km8,000 m……Windy42.9761, -6.2559
51.2 km10,981 m……Windy43.0044, -6.4541
67.7 km14,000 m……Windy43.0327, -6.6522
Aerial photograph of Meloita, pin marked.
PNOA orthophoto · 420 m across · crosshair = the exact coordinates

Cloud forecast, every model sight line

Worst reading along the ray, same axes on every chart.

iEach layer is sampled where the ray passes through it and the worst value is charted. A shaded span means that model has no data there, not clear sky. Low cloud hides a sun this low; cirrus dims the corona but does not hide it. Fetched by your browser on load.

Low cloud Mid cloud High cloud (cirrus) Totality vertical axis: cover, 0–100 %

How it scores

Component Points
Sun above the skyline28.0 / 28
Sun still up at totality14.2 / 20
Local relief16.0 / 16
Length of totality13.4 / 16
Getting a car to it4.7 / 20
Total 76.3 / 100
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