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Slooh Observatory Is Webcasting Today's Rare 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse (space.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the there-goes-the-sun dept.

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."

24 comments

  1. A direct link would have been nice by darthsilun · · Score: 3, Informative

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

    1. Re:A direct link would have been nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

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

    2. Re:A direct link would have been nice by MrKaos · · Score: 2

      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.

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    3. Re:A direct link would have been nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you!

    4. Re:A direct link would have been nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      https://youtu.be/ao_1fEPNcHg?t=4952
      moneyshot

    5. Re: A direct link would have been nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes.
      Looking on YouTube since I missed it while sleeping.

  2. Broadcast delayed by 1 hour by tal_mud · · Score: 1

    According to their twitter feed

    1. Re:Broadcast delayed by 1 hour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    2. Re:Broadcast delayed by 1 hour by tal_mud · · Score: 1

      Broadcast started

    3. Re:Broadcast delayed by 1 hour by MrKaos · · Score: 2

      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 out here, a lot of excitement build in the moon supporters, all mooning the sun
      • C: and those sun supporters are sunning their moons
      • M: Chuck it's all moons as we slooh closer to annularity 0
      • C: OMG what a spectacular play from the sun just managing to hold on, I don't know where they pulled that play from
      • M: AND SCORE, THE SUN SCORES, IN THE DECIDER!
      • C: an incredible upset as the moon gets their ass kicked again by the sun, and I'll get the moon for a post game comment,
      • Moon: like yeah, sun had some great plays, we tried mainly blocking moves, but yeah sun came up again.
      • M: And as can be expected, jubilation over here in the suns box, a few words sun
      • Sun: like yeah, moon had some great moves going around the earth only to come up in the line of play but our game strategy was to just let everyone else go around
      • M:Brilliant play
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  3. and it burns burns burns by MrKaos · · Score: 1

    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!

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  4. Good; maybe now they'll finally show Niburu in.... by lkroll4565 · · Score: 1

    ....all its glory. lolol :)

  5. Re:Good; maybe now they'll finally show Niburu in. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    why do u hate science????????????

  6. Thank you! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This was a great post, very welcome departure from most of the divisive posts we've seen the past few weeks. I'd never heard of Slooh before, they did a great job with the content and I enjoyed the commentary, especially the pretty lady talking about the psychological effects of an eclipse. This made my Sunday - thank you!

  7. Filmed with a potato by Powercntrl · · Score: 1

    Expectation
    Reality

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  8. Street shitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I ate some indo-chimp food once. I had a ''ring of fire'' for a week.

  9. Oh shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And now?

  10. A little notice please! by martinfb · · Score: 1

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

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