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Sky-gazers eye heavens for total eclipse in N. Australia

People's Daily Online)  08:10, November 15, 2012

Totality is shown during the solar eclipse at Palm Cove in Australia's Tropical North Queensland on November 14, 2012. (Xinhua/AFP)

Edited and Translated by Zhang Qian, People's Daily Online

Eclipse-hunters have flocked to Queensland's tropical northeast to watch the region's first total solar eclipse in 1,300 years on November 14, which occurred as the moon passed between the earth and the sun, casting a shadow path on the globe and lasting for a maximum on the Australian mainland of 2 minutes and 5 seconds.

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(Editor:张茜、姚春)

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