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Total Eclipse of the Sun Australia, November 14, 2012
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Amazing Moment of Total Solar Eclipse (2012 November 14 Australia)
[link to www.youtube.com]
Total Solar Eclipse - Slooh Complete Broadcast
[link to www.youtube.com]
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[link to science.nasa.gov]
Watch the Total Solar Eclipse in Australia live online
Tourism Tropical North Queensland (with the assistance of NASA and Astronomical Association Queensland) have organised a live video stream of the Total Solar Eclipse -
[link to www.eclipsecairns.com]
The SLOOH Space Camera will also be Broadcasting a live Feed of the Total Solar Eclipse -
[link to events.slooh.com]
And Ufo-Blogger will also be running a live stream of the event-
[link to www.ufo-blogger.com]
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People from around the world are converging on the coast of northeast Australia.
The attraction isn’t the Great Barrier Reef, just offshore, or the surrounding rain forests full of wildlife and exotic plants.
They’re going to see a total eclipse of the sun.
On the morning of Nov. 14th (Australia time), about an hour after sunrise, the Moon will pass directly in front of the sun.
Residents and visitors of the city of Cairns, also known as the Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, will enjoy an early morning eclipse lasting 2 minutes with the sun only 14 degrees above the eastern horizon.
[link to www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org]
Total eclipses of the Sun in a particular area are rare.
There has not been a total eclipse seen from mainland Australia since the South Australian eclipse of 4 December 2002.
The next total solar eclipse of the Sun to be seen from mainland Australia will just touch the coast of Western Australia on 20 April 2023.
[link to astronomy.swin.edu.au]
But there's more to this event than tourism. Scientists are attending, too.
For researchers, the brief minutes of totality offer a window into one of the deepest mysteries of solar physics: The mystery of coronal heating.
In plain language, they'd like to know why the sun's outer atmosphere or "corona" is so hot.
The surface temperature of the sun is only 6000 degrees C. Yet the corona above it is much warmer, a million degrees Celsius or even more.
During an eclipse, "the moon reveals the innermost corona, which manmade coronagraphs have trouble seeing,” explains Shadia Habbal of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii.
“That is where all the magnetic field and physical processes responsible for heating the corona are evolving most rapidly."
[link to science.nasa.gov]
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