Total Eclipse Of The Sun, 14th Nov, Australia South Pacific

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Total Eclipse Of The Sun, 14th Nov, Australia South Pacific

Post by Thinking Aloud » Sun Nov 11, 2012 9:24 am

Total Eclipse Of The Sun

November 14th (local time) - Australia & South Pacific

The most easily accessible place for totality is probably Cairns (where Mrs TA just happens to be this week) where a two minute totality will occur soon after sunrise on 14th, but a partial eclipse will be visible over much of eastern Australia and the whole of New Zealand. And bits of Chile at sunset!

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Re: Total Eclipse Of The Sun, 14th Nov, Australia South Paci

Post by FBM » Sun Nov 11, 2012 10:32 am

Not even a partial here, as far as I can tell. :(
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Re: Total Eclipse Of The Sun, 14th Nov, Australia South Paci

Post by Hermit » Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:52 am

Thanks for the the heads-up, TA. I'll be experiencing a partial eclipse on Wednesday between about 6:40 and 8:20 am local time. Sunrise will be about 6:10 and I'm due to start work at 6:30, so I'm not going to miss that.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:53 am

FBM wrote:Not even a partial here, as far as I can tell. :(
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:54 am

I wish they'd schedule more solar eclipses at night, when the glare isn't so bad.
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Post by Hermit » Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:56 am

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
FBM wrote:Not even a partial here, as far as I can tell. :(
Try Solara?
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Post by Hermit » Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:57 am

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:I wish they'd schedule more solar eclipses at night, when the glare isn't so bad.
The sun should be abolished altogether. Useless thing. It only shines when it's daylight anyway.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:10 pm

Hermit wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:I wish they'd schedule more solar eclipses at night, when the glare isn't so bad.
The sun should be abolished altogether. Useless thing. It only shines when it's daylight anyway.
Bloody entitlement job.
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Re: Total Eclipse Of The Sun, 14th Nov, Australia South Paci

Post by PsychoSerenity » Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:24 pm

Since seeing this thread I've had this song in my head, so I thought I'd let it get stuck in yours too. :tut:

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Re: Total Eclipse Of The Sun, 14th Nov, Australia South Paci

Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:44 pm

Just watched it live by NASA feed - spectacular!!

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Post by mistermack » Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:54 pm

Thinking Aloud wrote:Just watched it live by NASA feed - spectacular!!
Just watched it on the telly, but you couldn't see anything, because it all went dark.

You would have thought they had lights, in Australia?
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Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:56 pm

And more importantly, Mrs TA, who was there in person, also managed to watch it through a break in the clouds! Very pleased. :biggrin:

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Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:27 pm

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Re: Total Eclipse Of The Sun, 14th Nov, Australia South Paci

Post by macdoc » Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:45 pm

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My step daughter was there ( lives in Cairns ) and got a couple of shots - said it was very spooky -

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birds stopped singing etc
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Post by Faithfree » Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:56 pm

Just to prove I get up early occasionally.
Not that it’s obvious, but the sun was 40% eclipsed at sunrise.

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