Slooh Observatory Is Webcasting Today's Rare 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse

An anonymous reader quotes Space.com A solar eclipse and its spectacular "ring of fire" will be visible from the Southern Hemisphere this Sunday morning, but no matter what side of the equator you're on, you can watch the spectacular event unfold online in a live broadcast from Slooh's online observatory...beginning at 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT)... This type of eclipse is called an annular eclipse, meaning that the sun will remain visible as a bright ring around the moon...

Slooh will present the eclipse in live feeds from Chile and other locations. "During the broadcast, Slooh host Gerard Monteux will guide viewers on this journey across multiple continents and thousands of miles," Slooh said in a statement. "He'll be joined by a number of guests who will help viewers explore not only the science of eclipses, but also the fascinating legend, myth, and spiritual and emotional expression associated with these most awe-inspiring celestial events."

A direct link would have been nice

[darthsilun]

instead of making us look it up.
http://live.slooh.com/stadium/... [slooh.com]

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[Anonymous Coward]

Also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao_1fEPNcHg [youtube.com].

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[MrKaos]

I've got the sound down and the bad lip reading guys are doing the commentary, when the talking heads come up, it's hilarious.

Broadcast delayed by 1 hour

[tal_mud]

According to their twitter feed

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[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah. The Sun and the Moon just called. They are stuck in a traffic jam.

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[tal_mud]

Broadcast started

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[MrKaos]

yeah, they have it in slow mo and kind of wind it back a bit to build excitement:

• Matt: Well Chuck with an annularity of only 6 minutes looks like the sun is about to have it's lights put out
• Chuck: Matt, the plays tonight have been superative, the moon is really letting the sun have it
• M: Do you think there is any chance for the sun to make a comeback
• C: At this stage of the game it looks like in this, the decider, the moon is going to finally break a 4.5 billion year loosing streak
• M: and look at the crowd ou

and it burns burns burns

[MrKaos]

My rings on fire, my rings on fire. It must have been the curry.

Johnny Cash would approve of the placement of this joke here because google ads are making slashdot great again.

yaah!

Good; maybe now they'll finally show Niburu in....

[Lyle Kroll]

....all its glory. lolol :)

Filmed with a potato

[Powercntrl]

Expectation [google.com]
Reality [tinypic.com]

A little notice please!

[martinfb]

It would have been nice if this news were a bit more timely!