On November 14, 2012 the easiest spot to view the total eclipse will be in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia.Eclipse 2012 is attracting world-wide attention from visitors planning holidays around the event which is best viewed from the Cairns region. The total solar eclipse will be seen along a strip of land about 200km wide which crosses the top of eastern Australia and the Coral Sea.Tropical North Queensland Tourism will be bringing the eclipse to everyone through a 2 hour webcast. You can watch the webcast on ustream. The Sun-Earth Day team will have a direct link for easy access at http://sunearthday.nasa.gov
Highlights of the webcast:
- 2 x telescopes from the Astronomical Association of Queensland which will be fitted to 2x panasonic Lumix cameras for the video output.
- One of the telescopes will be set up at Ellis Beach and the other at Palm Cove
- Special guests talking about the eclipse, comments to the public etc.
- Camera on a boat on The Great Barrier Reef with a second host
- There will be a link on the official eclipse site www.eclipse2012.org.aupointing to the live stream.