Today’s Solar Eclipse Isn’t Visible From Pasadena. Here’s How to Watch It Online

A total solar eclipse sweeps across the top of the globe today, but no one in the Pasadena area will see it from a backyard or rooftop. The path of totality runs over the Arctic and northern Russia before crossing Greenland, Iceland and the Atlantic Ocean into northern Spain, with a small part of Portugal also in the track. 

A partial eclipse reaches farther — into the northern United States, from Alaska to North Carolina, along with most of Canada, much of Europe and northwestern Africa. Southern California isn’t in the zone at all: a California advisory states the eclipse will not be visible in the California sky, so residents can only watch it online. 

For local skywatchers, then, this is an online event. NASA’s English-language program was set to begin at 1:15 p.m. Eastern (10:15 a.m. Pacific). It pairs camera feeds from points along the eclipse track — including sites in Iceland and Spain — with on-air analysis from NASA scientists and eclipse experts. The coverage also includes footage from a WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft chasing the Moon’s shadow. 

It streams on NASA+, at nasa.gov/live and on NASA’s YouTube channel. Depending on when you read this, the live feed may already be underway or over; NASA typically makes its broadcasts available for on-demand viewing on the same platforms afterward. 

Other free streams run in parallel: timeanddate.com on YouTube from 9:00 a.m. Pacific, with commentary from journalist Anne Buckle and astrophysicist Graham Jones, and the Virtual Telescope Project from 10:20 a.m. The San Francisco Exploratorium is also carrying totality from Villalibado, Spain.