Tens of thousands of scientists, tourists, Amateur astronomers and ordinary Australians were able to see the incredible beauty of the spectacle - a total solar Eclipse.

The entire Northern Australia briefly plunged into darkness in broad daylight. The peak of the Eclipse was observed in approximately 06:50 local time (00:50 GMT), when the Moon was exactly between the Sun and Earth. In the sky instead of the daytime running lights appeared black circle framed with the shining crown.

The largest city on the way Moonshadow - the so-called "capital Eclipse" - became Cairns on the West coast of Australia. There are about 150 thousand persons, and in the day of the Eclipse there was another 80 thousand visitors. In the city crammed Packed all the hotels and tourists wiped off the supermarket shelves all products and water.

According to Associated Press, some hotels North-Eastern Queensland were fully booked for the Eclipse days three years ago. All in all, the region gathered about 50 thousand tourists, scientists and Amateur astronomers.

None of the participants regretted that he had travelled a long way. All who were lucky enough to watch the Eclipse live, are in incredible thrilled with it, describing his impressions adjectives "Grand", "magnificent" and "incredible".