watch the solar eclipse here

[link to events.slooh.com]

The eclipse will begin late Tuesday morning California time. The "path of totality," or the part of the earth from where the eclipse can be seen, is 108 miles wide and will cover 9,000 miles over a three-hour period. But it will be almost entirely over the Pacific Ocean. That's why National Geographic called this eclipse "one of the century's most remote solar eclipses."

The total eclipse will be visible from land for just a few minutes on the northern Australian coast overlooking the Great Barrier Reef. And that's where two different live streaming cameras will be set up to capture the show for the rest of us.

The Slooh Space Camera will be live-streaming the eclipse on its website, which will allow viewers to ask questions about what they are seeing and even let them snap photos that can be then be uploaded to Pinterest. The stream begins at 11:30 a.m. PST, about an hour before the total eclipse will be visible from the Australian city of Cairns.