This week, observers in parts of Southeast Asia will be able to witness a celestial spectacle, a total eclipse of the sun. The occurrence of the total solar eclipse can be witnessed in many parts of Southeast Asia on Wednesday. Beginning over the Indian Ocean and thereafter darkening the parts of Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and other islands prior to disappearing in the Pacific Ocean northeast of Hawaii, people will be able to witness solar eclipse.

The natives in many parts of the world, including China, Japan, northern Australia, Hawaii and Alaska, will get to see a partial eclipse.

People belonging to the area located in the ‘path of totality’ are lucky as they will see a total eclipse quite clearly. People can watch the total solar eclipse live in Slooh Community Observatory hosted webcast.

The Slooh broadcast will start on March 8 at 6 pm, stretching till 9 pm. The webcast will also be available on Space.com, courtesy of Slooh.

In a statement, Sarah Jaeggli, a space scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said, “The moon blocks the light of the sun's surface very, very precisely. You can see all the way down to the roots of the corona, where the atmosphere meets the sun's surface”.

In the region of the path of totality, there are chances of a humid, unstable atmosphere that can cause rainclouds easily. Moreover, meteorologists Jay Anderson and Jennifer West have predicted that on Earth there are no chances of clear skies better than over 50%.

They wrote in their blog Eclipsophile that ship-based observers are obviously going to have a benefit in this eclipse as they will have the access to the lowest cloud amounts and a mobile platform to look out for better skies on the day of the eclipse.