Unable to make a trip to Libya to watch a total solar eclipse on Wednesday? Log on the Internet and you can view the universal spectacle even without going out of the door.

South African scientists announced on Monday that they will capture and stream the eclipse live on the website http:// africlipse.csir.co.za , though it could be several minutes later than the real phenomenon.

Experts at South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), collaborating with scientists from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, plan to record the phenomenon via a telescope with a DV camera and two additional webcams and put the short video on the website.

The webcasting will start on Wednesday at about 10:30 a.m. ( 0830 GMT). The eclipse is expected to last about three minutes.

The eclipse's path across Africa starts at coast of Ghana, and passes through several countries in a north-easterly direction, including Libya.

The CSIR said the only limiting factor in the quality of the broadcast could be Ghana's bandwidth capability, which could delay the transmission by a few minutes.

The total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses half the Earth on Wednesday. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in Brazil and extends across the Atlantic, northern Africa, and central Asia where it ends at sunset in western Mongolia, according to the website of the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

A partial eclipse will be seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes the northern two thirds of Africa, Europe, and central Asia, the NASA said.

Source: Xinhua