Watch
Live: The
First Solar Eclipse of 2014
The moon will block the sun in the
First Solar Eclipse of the year on April 29, and stargazers in Australia have some of the best seats on the planet. But you don't have to be in the land Down Under to see the sun spectacle — you can
Watch it online for free.
Weather permitting, the
first solar eclipse of 2014 will appear as a partial
Solar Eclipse to observers in Australia and southern Indonesia, with nearly 65 percent of the sun's disk obscured by the moon. It is the
First of two
Solar eclipses this year and comes just two weeks after a dazzling total lunar
Eclipse on April 15.
Two online skywatching groups — the
Slooh community telescope and the Virtual Telescope Project — will provide live webcasts of the
Solar eclipse*from Australia, beginning at 2 a.m. EDT on Tuesday. You can
watch those solar eclipse webcasts live on Space.com. It will be Tuesday after**on local time across Australia during the eclipse, with the sun setting before the event concludes.
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