Watch Sunday's rare, hybrid solar eclipse live, right here

Watch Sunday’s rare, hybrid solar eclipse live, right here

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This 2009 partial eclipse of the sun occurred at sunset off the Philippines. (Aaron Favila / Associated Press)

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The total solar eclipse on Aug. 11, 1999, prompted Muslim clergymen to call the faithful to special eclipse prayers. This picture was taken from the Iranian city of Nahavand. (Atta Kenare / AFP/Getty Images)

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Schoolchildren from St. Albert’s junior school in Mavuradona, Zimbabwe, observe the progress of a total eclipse in 2001. The eclipse first hit land in Angola, then traveled across Zambia, Zimbabwe and Madagascar. (Rob Cooper / Associated Press)

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A partial solar eclipse, projected through binoculars onto a clipboard at Griffith Observatory, was visible on May 20, 2012. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

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These Hungarian tourists joined about 2,000 Turkish schoolchildren gathered at an ancient Roman theater to view a solar eclipse in the Mediterranean coastal resort of Side in 2006. The total solar eclipse began at sunrise on the eastern tip of Brazil, crossed the Atlantic and made landfall in Ghana, headed north across the Sahara, the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey and the Black Sea, and on into Central Asia, where it died out at sunset in Mongolia. (Burhan Ozbilici / Associated Press)

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The 2012 partial solar eclipse didn’t prevent one person from flying a kite at Angel’s Gate Park in San Pedro. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

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This 1998 total eclipse was seen in parts of northern Venezuela, northern Colombia and the Caribbean. This is what it looked like above El Pico in Punto Fijo, Venezuela. (Jose Caruci / Associated Press)

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Eclipse enthusiasts gathered in Palm Cove, North Queensland, to capture Australia’s first solar eclipse in a decade, on Nov. 14, 2012. (Ian Hitchcock / Getty Images)

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Buddhist monks watch the solar eclipse near the Eiffel Tower on Aug. 11, 1999. (Jacques Brinon / Associated Press)

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The longest total solar eclipse of this century occurred on July 22, 2009, and was visible from a narrow corridor through northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati. This is what it looked like above Baoshi Mountain in Hangzhou city, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. (Wu Hong / EPA)

By Deborah Netburn

Nov. 2, 2013 4:31 PM PT

There’s a solar eclipse coming Sunday morning, and you can watch it live, right here.

Beginning at 3:45 a.m. PST, the online observatory Slooh.com will stream the solar eclipse live from a remote part of the Kenyan countryside.

The broadcast will last for 3 1/2 hours, ending at 7:15 a.m. and will also include live feeds from telescopes in Gabon, Africa, and the Canary Islands. You’ll find it playing in the video box above.

Why do you need to watch the total eclipse online? Because unless you live along a very narrow band of land on the African continent, it won’t be visible from where you live.

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If you live on the eastern seaboard of the United States or in certain parts of southern Europe, you can step outside and see a partial eclipse (details here). But if you want to see that glorious moment when the moon completely blocks out the sun, you will need to be looking at a computer screen.

Sunday’s eclipse is known as a hybrid eclipse, a fairly rare event.

As the eclipse gets going, the moon will be just a little too far from Earth to completely block the sun. But as the eclipse continues to move east, the distance between Earth and the moon decreases just a bit. By the time the eclipse’s path crosses the African continent, the moon will cover the sun entirely and the brightest stars will be visible, even in the daytime.

There’s something very cool about watching this eclipse with people around the world, live, as it happens. But if you just can’t make yourself do it, Slooh is going to try to put together a time lapse of the eclipse which should be live (and embedded above) a little after 9 a.m. PST.

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