Tourists look to the sky as clouds obscure a full solar eclipse in the northern Australian city of Cairns on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. Eclipse-hunters have flocked to northeast Australia to watch the region's first total solar eclipse in 1,300 years which occurred as the moon passed between the earth and the sun, casting a shadow path on the globe.
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Photographers prepare their equipment as they wait for the sun to appear from behind clouds during the solar eclipse at Palm Cove in Australia's Tropical North Queensland on Wednesday.
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A boat is seen on the horizon just before the start of the total solar eclipse at Palm Cove in Australia.
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At right, Namiko Aoki, 84, from Tokyo, Japan, and companions Keiko Nakamura and Kisako Takahara. watch the moon eclipse the sun from Four Mile Beach in Port Douglas, Australia.
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Tourists watch as the moon blocks the sun as it approaches a full solar eclipse in the northern Australian city of Cairns.
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The moon passes in front of the sun during a full solar eclipse.
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The Diamond Ring effect is shown following totality of the solar eclipse at Palm Cove.
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Spectators watch the solar eclipse while sitting in the surf in Palm Cove, Australia.