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Viewers.
A total
solar eclipse will take place on 13-14 November, 2012, with a
magnitude of 1.0500.
A solar
eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun,
thereby
totally or partially obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on
Earth.
A total
solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger
than the Sun,
blocking
all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness.
Totality
occurs in a narrow path across the surface of the Earth,
while a
partial solar eclipse will be visible over a region thousands of
kilometers wide.
For this
eclipse totality will be visible from northern Australia and the
southern Pacific Ocean.
The most
populous city to experience totality will be Cairns,
which will
experience 2 minutes of totality just an hour after daybreak
(6:38 am
AEST) with the sun at an altitude of just 14°.
Parts of
northern New Zealand including Auckland will experience a partial
eclipse with over 80% of the sun obscured.
Christchurch and points north will see at least 60% of the sun
obscured.
Maximum
eclipse over New Zealand will occur around 10:30 AM NZDT (21:30 UTC).
Parts of
central Chile, specifically the Los Ríos and Los Lagos regions from
Valdivia
(63%
obscured) south to Quellón (54% obscured)
will see
a partial eclipse with over half the sun obscured at sunset,
over the
coast. Points north up to about Santiago will see the eclipse begin
as the sun is setting.
When seen
from west of the International Date Line, for example from Port
Douglas & Cairns in Australia,
the
eclipse will take place on the morning of November 14. Greatest
eclipse,
of
duration 4 min 2 sec, will occur east of the International Date Line
on November 13,
approximately 2000 km east of New Zealand, and 9600 km west of
Chile.
This
particular Total Solar Eclipse will play host to the worlds first
Solar Eclipse Marathon to take place in Port Douglas
The race
of over 2,000 international competitors
and race
ambassador Steve Moneghetti will commence as the first rays of the
sun re-emerge from behind the moon bringing
about the
world’s first "intergalactic starting gun
