Live Event: This Century’s Most Powerful Eclipse Starts In A Couple Of Hours
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by Masaru IKEDA
NHK 's video shooting the eclipse in Iwojima, a rural island located 1,200km (750 miles) off Japan's main islands.
NHK's video shooting the eclipse from a ferry cruising the Pacific Ocean.
These two videos were carried live by NHK, JAXA, NICT and NAOJ via high-speed data communication satellite "KIZUNA (WINDS)".
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We reported almost a dozen of the eclipse related live events in this story several weeks ago. Once again, the followings give you an opportunity to be a part of this great astronomical event even at your home or your office. The eclipse can be observed from 9:30am to 0:30pm. J.S.T.(Japan Standard Time), which is 0:30am to 3:30am U.T.C.(Universal Time Coordinated)
- Asahi Newspaper will deliver live image from Akuseki-jima Island, Kagoshima.
http://www.asahi.com/video/nisshoku.html
- A TBS-affiliate TV station in Okinawa, MBC brings you live images from Nakanoshima Island, Akuseki-jima Island and Takarajima Island. It uses a Tokyo-based Utagoe's livestreaming technology.
http://nissyoku.mbc.co.jp
- Japan's public broadcaster NHK will bring you live coverage from Akuseki-jima Island, Yakushima Island, Iwojima Island and a ferry cruising the Pacific Ocean.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/live0722/
- Live! Eclipse brings you live from Shanghai’s suburb of Jiaxing City[C] (Mainland China), Nakanoshima Observatory[J] in Tokara Islands (Japan), Amami-oshima (Japan) and Marakei Atoll (Micronesian Island of Kiribati). Tokyo-based large ISP, IIJ assists this project to distribute live video feeds in multiple formats such as Apple iPhone, Adobe Flash Video and Microsoft Sliverlight.
http://www.live-eclipse.org/
- The world's largest meteorological company Weathernews delivers live coverage from Mumbai(India), Seoul(South Korea), Shanghai (Mainland China) and Amami-Ohshima Island (Kagoshima, Japan).
http://weathernews.jp/soramado/html/download.html (requiring free online signup and an Adobe-AIR app installation)
- Sky Perfect J-SAT (Japan’s only satellite broadcasting platform operator) and Nico Nico Douga[J] (UGC-based popular video sharing site) will bring live images from Ogasawara Haha-jima, Bonin Islands, to NicoNico subscribers’ cellphone handsets and PC screens. Two weather girls will anchor the live show[J] and investigate the supervisions whether dogs are howling and frogs are cloaking in chorus when the sun and the moon are in conjunction.
- Tokyo-based system integration company Media-I will be broadcast live stream from Akuseki-jima, a Tokara island. See this[J] for more details.
- In association with elementary and junior high schools in Tokara islands, Kagoshima University will bring you live streaming from seven Tokara islands. See this[J] for more details.
- Japan Meteorological Agency announced it would publicize still satellite images shooting the earth from MTSAT-2 every 15 minutes since 10am, July 22nd when the eclipse will be underway. Images will be available here[J].
- RKK, a private TV broadcaster in Kumamoto, will deliver live coverage from seven locations and be aired on a morning show[J] on the broadcaster’s participating nationwide affiliate network. Images will be also available on the Internet at RKK’s website.
- Fujeclipse ustreams live image from the top of Mt.Fuji.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fujeclipse---broadcasting-from-the-summit-of-mt-fuji
Author Information Masaru IKEDA has co-founded several system integration companies and consulting firms in Tokyo. He has been contributing serial columns to nationwide newspapers and IT periodicals, also he's currently serving as tech consultant for several web companies. His biography is here. His private blog is here. 
