A young couple sit, holding hands, on the Cairns Esplanade in Queensland, Australia as they watch the final moments of the total eclipse of the sun.

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For this eclipse, totality was visible from northern Australia to about 470 km north of the Chilean Juan Fernández Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean where totality ended. The most populous city to experience totality was Cairns, which had around 2 minutes of totality an hour after daybreak (06:39 AEST, 20:39 UTC) with the sun at an altitude of 14°. Unfortunately storm clouds rolled in during the eclipse and obscured much of the spectacle.

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Location: Cairns Esplanade, Far North Queensland, Australia
Photo credit: © Marco Trovalusci Photography / Alamy / Afripics
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