I think I remember roughly where you are:
Google: For the partial solar eclipse on August 12, 2026, in the Charente region (such as Angoulême), the event begins around 7:27 PM, reaches a maximum coverage of about 96.3% to 96.6% obscurity at 8:22 PM to 8:23 PM, and ends around 9:11 PM local time.
And Chris, because you’re the ‘Man’ 
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Don’t forget to tell everyone about the planets lining up, just before dawn, too!
( I’m soo envious of the photos you will be getting!, I’m tinged green 
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How exciting is THIS night?!! 
In THIS century, while WE’RE all here to see it?!
( I just love all this natural stuff… all in one go! ). 
Same here, More interesting and safe 
As it’s in the evening it won’t be much different to the end of a normal summer’s day, and the birds & animals won’t see any difference, any more than on a dark very cloudy sky dimming everything. I’ll watch it on the news. Simples!
Watching from a bridge in the City of London, you could see flocks of Cormorants flying very fast down the river, presumably trying to get back to their roosts (or whatever cormorants do) before this “nightfall” which had evidently caught them by surprise.
Not long now 
Picnic basket packed. Camping chairs and table cleaned. Lambrusco cooling in the fridge along with the starters. 5 minutes drive down the road at 19:15 and we’ll be at the agricultural weighbridge and the large carpark with a completely uninterrupted view across the Garonne plain to the distant horizon. Provided the world and his wife hasn’t got there first, there’s a layby alongside which is shaded by trees. We’ll park and picnic there and cross the road every so often to observe progress. We may linger to Perseid watch afterwards.
Ditto, I saw the 1999 one in Reims.
Unfortunately, I will miss this one, I’m in the middle of eye treatments 
You can watch it online, Lily. There are some good shots on space.com or I think BFM is showing it live.
@Jennifer11 Thank you
I hope you’re managing to watch it without hurting your eyes.
Ooh ahh 
Pretty light and shade on my west terrace just now, the bay tree leaves making a load of pinhole cameras.
Good views from Spain on the news, clearly able to see the corona discharge.
Space.com had that as well, and the ‘diamond ring’. It looked amazing;
I dialled my welding mask down to maximum and it worked just fine. Just got to wait for the blinding headaches and white flashes to go away…
Only joking
