Eclipse at Sea
aboard the Celebrity Millennium
Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012
C2: 31° 43' 36.4"S - 176° 40' 51.1"E
mid-eclipse: 31° 43' 41.6"S - 176° 41' 2.1"E
C3: 31° 43' 46.7"S - 176° 41' 13.2"E
Totality: 3m 30s
My wife and I saw this eclipse (her first!) from the
cruise ship
Celebrity Millennium, about 300 miles north of New Zealand
This eclipse was going to be my first in Australia. After having been to Australia in 1993, I was very much looking forward to going back (mainly to see if the initials I'd carved into a certain tree were still there - or whether the tree was even still there!). And having missed the TSEs there in 2002 and 2003, I had made plans to go to Cairns along with thousands of my fellow eclipse chasers. I even had some designs on making this the first leg of very large trip, where I would visit some places that remain on my bucket list - and manage to fly all the way around the world in the process.