Astronomy Tours

The stars have always fascinated mankind. ‘I think everyone is a stargazer at some time or another,’ says Robin Scagell, astronomy author and broadcaster. ‘You don’t have to be nerdy or a boffin to appreciate the amazing spectacle.

The antipodean track expected for the Total Solar Eclipse on November 14th 2012. The 2012 solar eclipse will be a total eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.0500. Totality will be visible from Queensland in northern Australia and the southern Pacific Ocean, with the maximum of 4 minutes 2 seconds visible from the Pacific Ocean.

A total eclipse occurs when the sun is completely obscured by the moon. The intensely bright disk of the sun is replaced by the dark silhouette of the moon, and the much fainter corona is visible.

Astronomers in the 21st century are turning to the high plateau of Chile to locate their largest and most sensitive telescopes.