WAITING FOR THE SHADOW SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSE OBSERVING FUTURE EXPEDITION & EVENT PLANNING

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. NORTHERN AUSTRALIA 14TH NOVEMBER, 2012

ROAD MAP A simple tourist road map of the region. Such maps are readily available from hotels and tour operators.

Maps of Contact Timings corrected for lunar limb profile

Cartographer Michael Zeiller has produced a set of maps from data calculated by Bill Kramer showing durations and contact times corrected for lunar limb profiles. There is one big valley that reduces duration of totality.

There are 5 maps in the limb corrected series.

Uncorrected

Corrected

Second contact [C2]

Third contact [C3]

Duration [C3-C2]

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