Tune in and Witness Tuesday's Total Solar Eclipse

A total solar eclipse that occurred Nov. 13, 2012. This photograph was taken at the northern tip of Australia. (Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) A total solar eclipse is often described as one of the most breathtaking astronomical events to behold, and on Tuesday, the first and only total solar eclipse of 2016 will occur. Unless you’re located within a narrow, 100-mile wide stretch of Indonesia, you’ll have to tune into the Slooh Community Observatory’s webcast of the event starting at 6 p.m. EST. Slooh will broadcast views of the eclipse from the Indonesian countryside, along with feeds from several other locations along the eclipse path. From their broadcast location, the eclipse will reach totality — the point when the moon fully blocks the sun — at 7:36 p.m. EST and will last for roughly two minutes. The total eclipse will be visible in parts of South East Asia and a partial eclipse will be visible in parts of Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and American Samoa. You can watch the event unfold right here, thanks to Slooh. NASA will also broadcast the event starting at 8 p.m. EST from Micronesia.