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On 4 December the northern border of South Africa experienced a total eclipse of the Sun. This eclipse spent most of the daylight hours across the southern Indian Ocean with a brief late afternoon display on the western Australian coast. The celestial geometry of this eclipse means that totality lasted 90 seconds on the centre-line. The eclipsed sun was 42 degrees above the horizon. The track of totality ran through rural areas of the Northern Province. African Itch, Tour Brokers in Pretoria, together with members of the Pretoria and Johannesburg centres of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa identified a farmland on the centre-line of the shadow about 50 minutes drive from Messina on the R525.
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