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Cairns sunrise three ‘sleeps’ before total eclipse

(c) 2012 Paul Floyd. Venus, crescent Moon and Sunrise position for 14 November 2012 Total solar eclipse. Photo taken 11 November 2012.

After a restless nights sleep (the air conditioner was too cold and I didn’t feel like looking for the controller – a mistake!), I got up early this morning to see where the Sun rises. This is important given that the partial phase of the eclipse starts when the Sun is just under two degrees above the horizon.

Sunrise this morning (11 November 2012) from Cairns. (c) Paul Floyd 2012

I wandered down to where some friend of mine are staying just in time to catch the sunrise. Well, as much as we could see given a very small amount of cloud on the horizon.

(C) Paul Floyd 2012

Hi to Tony, Anne-Louise, Michelle and Brendan. And no, I am not a morning person!

There may be room for some clothes! (c) Paul Floyd 2012

And finally, I can’t resist putting this picture in. This is my suitcase once I had loaded all my equipment. Fortunately the eclipse is in Far North Queensland where you only need a tee-shirt and shorts at this time of the year! I would like to point out the solar telescope complete with computerized mount that I will be using to webcast the solar eclipse courtesy of my website and outreach sponsor Extravision Australia. The iOptron 60 Solar telescope and mount is in the orange bag. That is all the space it takes up!

Don’t forget to download the pinhole viewer I made for the eclipse plus watch my live webcast from Cairns of the eclipse.

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