Starting at 2:20 p.m. EDT today, the Earth will pass between sun and the moon, casting a ruddy orange glow across the shiny, meteorite-battered lunar surface.

The 100-minute-long celestial event will be spotted best from South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, but you don’t have to be there to see it: Google and the Slooh Space Camera have teamed up to provide this live webcast.

Slooh, a robotic telescope sitting atop a volcano in the Canary Islands, will feed its video to Google's YouTube channel and Google Earth starting at 2:00 pm EDT, and footage will go until 6:00 pm EDT. If you’re on the go, Slooh’s Android app can beam the view to your phone.

If you’re lucky enough to watch the eclipse from the ground, please send us your photos. If we get enough, we'll publish the best in a lunar eclipse gallery.

Image: simondbarnes/Flickr

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