Watch Our Live Stream of the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

The live stream has come to an end. In the video below, Bob Baer, the co-chair of Southern Illinois University’s Solar Eclipse Steering Committee, speaks about the eclipse, in an interview filmed before the event.

 

 

This live stream will run from 11:30 A.M. to 4:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time on Monday, August 21st, tracking the total solar eclipse from coast to coast. It is provided by Slooh, a service that allows users to patch into and personally control online telescopes around the world. The live stream will be hosted from the Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch by Gerard Monteux, a former sports broadcaster turned astrophotographer; Paul Cox, Slooh’s chief astronomical officer; and Paige Godfrey, its director of research.

Monday’s transcontinental event will be the first of its kind in nearly a century, and the first to be visible from the mainland United States since 1979. Though the seventy-mile-wide path of totality, in which the sun is fully obscured by the moon, will cover only fourteen states, all of the Lower Forty-eight will get to see at least some of the show—seventy-one-per-cent obscuration in New York, seventy-five per cent in San Francisco and Dallas, eighty per cent in Cleveland and Detroit, eighty-eight per cent in Chicago. The point of greatest eclipse will be in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where the sun will disappear for two minutes and forty seconds. If that sounds like a long time, consider the forecast for the total solar eclipse of July 16, 2186: seven minutes and twenty-nine seconds.