Photo Courtesy of NASA

On Friday, March 20 a larger-than-average new super moon will pass right in front of the sun and create a total solar eclipse.

The total solar eclipse event will be the first since Nov. 3, 2013. The eclipse will happen on the same date as the March 2015 equinox, where the moon turns new only 14 hours after reaching it’s closest point to the Earth in its orbit, according to earthsky.com.

The super moon is not visible in our sky but you can watch a live video stream at space.com.

The dark shadow cone of the moon will be making a path primarily over the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, beginning in Greenland then going counterclockwise passing over Iceland and the United Kingdom, according to space.com.

The eclipse will be able to be seen completely by the Faroe Islands and Svalbard, according to earthsky.com and will create a larger than normal affect on the Earth’s oceans.

Countries in the high northern latitudes, like Greenland and Iceland, will see the eclipse in varying degrees.

A solar eclipse happens when the new moon passes in front of the sun and the moon’s shadow falls on our planet.

The last eclipse event to have occurred in Santa Clarita was a partial lunar eclipse on April 4, 2015 at approximately 2:03 a.m. and lasted almost six hours.