--- title: Watch the Total Solar Eclipse Live description: The moon will slowly and completely cover the face of the sun, enveloping the sky in darkness on Tuesday during a brief total solar eclipse. canonical: https://time.com/4249814/total-solar-eclipse-how-to-watch/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-07T19:02:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:18.323Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch the Total Solar Eclipse Live og:description: Skygazers in Southeast Asia get a front-row seat this year, but the spectacle will be livestreamed og:url: https://time.com/4249814/total-solar-eclipse-how-to-watch/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7d33a625d156ef8/69888087524fc04c1ddf70fd/solar-eclipse-romeo-durscher.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: solar-eclipse-Romeo-Durscher og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Total Solar Eclipse Live twitter:description: Skygazers in Southeast Asia get a front-row seat this year, but the spectacle will be livestreamed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7d33a625d156ef8/69888087524fc04c1ddf70fd/solar-eclipse-romeo-durscher.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the Total Solar Eclipse Live by [Slooh](/author/slooh/) ## Slooh Mar 7, 2016 7:02 PM CUT  This total solar eclipse was visible from the northern tip of Australia on Nov. 13, 2012. This total solar eclipse was visible from the northern tip of Australia on Nov. 13, 2012.Romeo Durscher by [Slooh](/author/slooh/) ## Slooh Mar 7, 2016 7:02 PM CUT The moon will slowly and completely cover the face of the sun, enveloping the sky in darkness this week during a brief [total solar eclipse](http://live.slooh.com/ "undefined"). The celestial spectacle, which [NASA says happens about once a year](http://nasa.tumblr.com/post/140631347814/science-when-the-sun-dont-shine "undefined") on Earth, will begin on Wednesday in parts of Southeast Asia and will cross the international date line to end Tuesday local time, [the New York _Times_ reports](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/science/total-solar-eclipse-will-end-the-day-before-it-begins.html "undefined"). Indonesia, Borneo and Sulawesi will experience a blackout at some point from 7 to 11 a.m. local time, according to the newspaper. NASA has sent a team of scientists to Indonesia, where researchers will document the total solar eclipse for an experiment aimed at measuring a certain kind of light scattered by electrons in the lower corona. The area can only be observed during total solar eclipses, the space agency said. The period of total eclipse, called totality, will occur at 7:37 p.m. EST and last for about two minutes, according to Slooh, a space broadcasting website. Another eclipse will be visible across the U.S. in August 2017. ### See Stunning Photos of a Solar Eclipse  A total solar eclipse is seen from the city of Ternate, in Indonesia's Maluku Islands, on March 9, 2016. Bay Ismoyo—AFP/Getty Images  A partial solar eclipse is seen from Kathmandu, Nepal on March 9. Sunil Pradhan—NurPhoto/Corbis  A total solar eclipse is visible from Belitung. Indonesia on March 9. Zulkarnain—Xinhua Press/Corbis  Indonesian residents wear eclipse glasses to watch a solar eclipse outside a planetarium in Jakarta, on March 9. Mast Irham—EPA  A partial solar eclipse is seen from Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 9, 2016. Adi Weda—EPA  The moon passes in front of the sun during a partial solar eclipse seem from Manila on March 9, 2016. Ted Alijibe—AFP/Getty Images  The moon passes in front of the sun during a partial solar eclipse seen from Naypyidaw on March 9. Ye Aung Thu—AFP/Getty Images  Acehnese men watch the total solar eclipse in Banda Aceh on March 9. Chaideer Mahyuddin—AFP/Getty Images TIME will host a livestream of the event on this page provided by Slooh, which will feature solar experts, including Professor Lucie Green and Slooh astronomer Bob Berman. Skygazers can also [follow along live with NASA](http://www.nasa.gov/content/watch-march-8-solar-eclipse-live "undefined"). _Slooh is a TIME partner. You can go to Slooh.com to join and watch this live broadcast, snap and share your own photos during the event, chat with audience members and interact with the hosts, and personally control Slooh’s telescopes._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4249814/total-solar-eclipse-how-to-watch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4249814/total-solar-eclipse-how-to-watch/"},"headline":"Watch the Total Solar Eclipse Live","datePublished":"2016-03-07T19:02:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:18.323Z","description":"Skygazers in Southeast Asia get a front-row seat this year, but the spectacle will be livestreamed","url":"https://time.com/4249814/total-solar-eclipse-how-to-watch/","keywords":["Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7d33a625d156ef8/69888087524fc04c1ddf70fd/solar-eclipse-romeo-durscher.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Slooh","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/slooh/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7d33a625d156ef8/69888087524fc04c1ddf70fd/solar-eclipse-romeo-durscher.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"solar-eclipse-Romeo-Durscher","caption":"This total solar eclipse was visible from the northern tip of Australia on Nov. 13, 2012.","creditText":"Romeo Durscher","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4249814/total-solar-eclipse-how-to-watch/","name":"Watch the Total Solar Eclipse Live"}}]}] ```