Enjoy some of the pictures taken by the Solar eclipse 2012 expedition in Australia! More to come!

Time lapse from Queensland Outback, Mulligan Hwy, Bob’s Lookout.

After more than two years without any total solar eclipses (the last one took place on July 11th, 2010), the Moon’s shadow revisits the Earth’s surface on 13th November 2012. The journey of the shadow begins in Australia, and then moves out to the Pacific Ocean. The maximum of the eclipse, with a duration of 4 minutes and 2 seconds, occurs in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at 22:11 UT, with the Sun at 68° above the horizon. The GLORIA project has organized an expedition to watch and broadcast live the event. See the event page.

Time-lapse from the Shelios 2012 base-camp in Greenland

	From 00:30 to 4:00 UT, August 26, 2012. 5 s time step. Credits: Enrique Herrero and gloria-project.eu.
	From 1:15 to 2:15 UT, August 22, 2012. 10 s time step. Credits: Enrique Herrero and gloria-project.eu.
	From 1:15 to 2:15 UT, August 22, 2012. 5 s time step. Credits: Miquel Serra-Ricart and gloria-project.eu.

An expedition to observe the aurora borealis from the South of Greenland, coinciding with the increase of the solar activity, will take place at the end of August. Named Shelios 2012, the expedition is promoted by the scientific-cultural association Shelios and is coordinated by its president Miquel Serra-Ricart, astronomer of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands and member of the GLORIA Project. A daily broadcast from the surroundings of the Qaleraliq glacier will be available on the web.

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Three live webcast of the transit of Venus were broadcasted in June 6th. They were taken from three different places around the world: Cairns in Australia, Sapporo in Japan and Tromsø in Norway (still pictures).

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	Time-lapse of the full transit (including the four contacts) as seen from Cairns, Australia. Images by Juan Carlos Casado.
	Time-lapse of the first and second contacts as seen from Sapporo, Japan. Credits: Miguel Ángel Pio and gloria-project.eu
	Time-lapse of the transit (without contacts) as seen from Cairns, Australia.
	Here the video of the first live connection.
	Here the video of the second live connection.
	Here the video of the third and fourth live connections.