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This was our (not very good) view of the total solar eclipse of November 2012, through clouds, taken from a point near Cairns, Australia. We were almost completely clouded out but we did get one or two dramatic peeks of the eclipsed sun. Here we can already see a red prominence at the 3 o'clock position and we can see the brightness of the sun's corona outlining the moon's top right side. A "Bailey's bead" of brilliant sunlight is still shining through a valley at about 4 o'clock on the moon's profile, and a thin band of not yet eclipsed sunlight is visible below and to the left of that.

Description
This was our (not very good) view of the total solar eclipse of November 2012, through clouds, taken from a point near Cairns, Australia. We were almost completely clouded out but we did get one or two dramatic peeks of the eclipsed sun. Here we can already see a red prominence at the 3 o'clock position and we can see the brightness of the sun's corona outlining the moon's top right side. A "Bailey's bead" of brilliant sunlight is still shining through a valley at about 4 o'clock on the moon's profile, and a thin band of not yet eclipsed sunlight is visible below and to the left of that.