The New Dominion

There’ll be a total eclipse over eastern Xinjiang from 11:00 to 11:10, Universal Time, which is 7:00 PM to 7:10 PM Beijing time - switch PM to AM if you’re in the US Eastern Time Zone and adjust accordingly if you’re elsewhere. For those of us who couldn’t make it out to Xinjiang for this great astronomical event, you can watch it live on webcast at NASA’s exploratorium, which for some reason has decided to capture the unique ethnic environment of Xinjiang by including a picture of a Uyghur on one of those revolving billboard advertisements in its introduction video. Of all things.

Or, if you’re feeling a bit of that Olympic Patriotism, you can watch it through the Xinhua sponsored Jinling Online webcast, which continues the long PRC tradition of crappily designed websites and embedded modules that don’t work at all. Have fun!