Total Solar Eclipse
Image Credit: NASA
The good news: there’s a total solar eclipse tomorrow.
The bad news: it won’t be visible from North America.
Here’s a video showing the path the Moon’s shadow will trace across the Earth.
However, a number of resources on the Internet will carry live feeds showing the eclipse in progress (totality begins at 5:54:59 a.m. Eastern Time [for the Exploratorium webcast], so kick on the feeds earlier). Tune in if you have the chance, because the next total solar eclipse visible from the United States won’t occur for 11 years.
Live vicariously through the Sun-Earth Day webcast team.
Resources and webcasts for Wednesday’s eclipse:
NASA’s eclipse page
Sky & Telescope
Sun-Earth Day eclipse page
Live Webcast (Side, TURKEY) - NASA Sun-Earth Connection
Live Webcast (Side, TURKEY) - Exploratorium
Live Webcast (TURKEY) - University of North Dakota, USA
Live Webcast (TURKEY) - live-eclipse.org, JAPAN
Live Webcast (Ghana) - University of Cape Coast
High Moon Webcast (Sallum EGYPT) - Olivier Staiger
Live Webcast (Antalya, TURKEY)
Live Webcast (Tabatinga, BRASIL) by Manual Digital (in Portuguese)
Added 29 March:
If you missed this morning’s coverage of the solar eclipse, you can still view the event thanks to NASA and the Exploratorium.
NASA has posted a page showcasing video highlights:
- 28 second video showing totality
- 5 minute, 22 second video assembled from multiple cameras and filters
If you’d like to view this morning’s entire archived webcast from Turkey, it’s available in a couple of formats from this Exploratorium page:
- Complete archived webcast (1 hour 16 minutes)
- Complete telescope-only video (2 hours 54 minutes)
I think it’s absolutely fantastic that this degree of coverage has been made available to the public.
Eclipse as viewed from the International Space Station:
The shadow of the moon falls on Earth as seen from the International Space Station, 230 miles above the planet, during a total solar eclipse at about 4:50 a.m. CST Wednesday, March 29. This digital photo was taken by the Expedition 12 crew, Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, who are wrapping up a six-month mission on the complex. Part of the Mediterranean Sea can be seen outside the shadow. (Image credit: NASA)
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So, we need to be up at 4 a.m., huh? Lol, as if that’s been a problem lately.
Which feed are you going to watch, Wolverine?
Whichever shows the smoothest video — I imagine there will be more demand than bandwidth, so I plan on tuning in early, probably to the Exploratorium feed.
Ahha, I didn’t realize that NASA TV will be covering the event as well.
>>Is this blog safe?>Blog appears to be safe.
>Is this blog safe?
I don’t get NASA TV–not sure why my cable company doesn’t carry it–I have digital cable and 20 zillion other channels I don’t want Darn, I’d prefer that to watching it on the PC. Oh well, I watched Deep Impact/Comet Tempel that way and it was OK.
Blog appears to be safe.
I hope you don’t do that Wolverine–Phil’s silly entry put me on the ‘bad word’ list at work. I could get in there, but part of my company’s web site and the big red ACCESS DENIED Internet Policy yada, yada was plastered at the top. I wish I knew that was coming. Once a techie had told me my name came up with “wine.” (Geesh, I was looking for wine as a gift one day.)
I love that eclipse photo, btw. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m partial to the Sun.
The “purplish glow” is a nice change.
I’m in the same boat with NASA TV here… hundreds of crappy channels carried on scrumptious digital (and HD) cable but no NASA.
Sorry to hear about the ‘net censor/work thingies — you don’t have any problems from my server or blog itself, do you?
No, you’re clean…he he.
Everybody hits “Access Denied” sites and animations all the time, but certain words especially regarding sex are major triggers. Nobody cares if one is attempting to look at jokes, sports or all the CNN news videos, and we can’t help hitting blocked sites, but the word list is a bit different. It’s mainly aimed at search parameters though; if I was Googling for such and such “amorous” sites they’d really be on my case. I just hate seeing that red ACCESS DENIED. Sooner or later they’re going to go Intranet…grrr.
OK, see ya around 4 a.m. I leave my computer on all the time when I’m home (keeps the telemarketers away)…is there an alarm feature anywhere where it can start playing music or something? Never thought about that.
Just stay up all night.
Just stay up all night.
I’ve been doing that sort of thing (few sleeping hours) way too much in the last couple of months, and it’s affecting me at work. Yesterday my eyes were crossing in the afternoon. I’m just not made for a normal schedule–I “peak” at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. No, I’ll lay on the couch and start reading, fall asleep, and then wake up about 1:00-ish as usual.
Cosmos is on tonight. I’ve been watching the series replay on TSC. It has a slightly dated feel to it, but Sagan–his mannerisms, speech, etc.–was so singularly different than anyone in his field. I don’t know how to describe his accent. Anyway, I might buy the newer DVD set.
1980 was a good year.
Oh no doubt, I’ve been all over the rebroadcasts myself. The series has aged so well, regardless of the “updated” footage in the remastered DVD set. I’m going to grab it as soon as possible.
One thing I can’t help but think, coming freshly off listening to the audio version of Pale Blue Dot… Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in The Matrix films sounds conspicuously like Sagan in terms of enunciation and delivery… just angrier and without the scientific musings.
I’m watching Carl now. It’s the way he draws out his vowels…”They improove…”
Hey, I can subscribe to Spaceweather Phone.
Lol, can you see my cell phone ringing at 2:00 a.m.–”Get up! Hubble is passing over, ya lazy bum!” Forget that I can barely see anything from where I live. I might just try it for fun, though I’m not sure about giving my cell phone number out–it’s just there’s no way to reach me on my landline unless I’m at work.
I tend not to get up when I have to. In fact, I almost blew it Saturday morning. I was up at 1:00-ish, had to get in the shower at 3:00 a.m., then at 2:30 I said, oh let me just lie down for a second. I conked out. My wake up call came at 3:40! She was supposed to call me at 3:00. I had to be in the car at 4:00. Luckily it wasn’t essential that I showered, so I made it on time by guzzling coffee and playing the radio loudly. BTW, I knew that after five bad Saturdays this past one would be clear…of course.
Watch it happen again this Saturday when I have to be somewhere again.
Lol….
“Most SpaceWeather Phone come around dinnertime, telling you what to watch for later that night: a meteor shower, a lunar eclipse, a space station flyby, etc. But some events are unexpected. They can happen any time–like 3 o’clock in the morning! Do you want us to wake you at that hour if a geomagnetic storm erupts and the sky fills with Northern Lights?”
For me it would be more like, “Do you want us to wake you if you can see a partial constellation?”
What sound does a wolverine make?
Here in India, it was a partial solar eclipse in my part. there are many interesting stories we can found but rarely heard by anyone. 1. eclipse drop the impact on human body, 2. it is dangerous to observe in the pregnancy, 3. it drop some impact on the other stars in the horoscopes and it relates with the different planets positions in the horoscopes as astrologists says. 4. bath is compulsory after the eclipse, like this there are many different stories here.
sunil
beep, I have no idea what sounds wolverines make.
BTW, I updated the article with links to archived video of the eclipse in case anyone missed it. Glad those were available, because I slept through the coverage… my power apparently went off and back on during the night, which wiped out my alarm clock.
…my power apparently went off and back on during the night, which wiped out my alarm clock.
Maybe you need the Spaceweather Phone. Gosh, I got up (thankfully coffee is a diueretic) at 2-ish. I was wondering why you weren’t online; I thought that maybe you were either having issues with the feed, then it occured to me that you would have posted something. Darn, but they have the replays as you pointed out.
Heh, I decided a couple years ago that I didn’t need a cell phone at all.
The webcast looks pretty neat, I’ve just scanned through it so far but will watch the whole thing in a bit.