The whole eclipse will last for a couple of hours as the moon passes in front of the sun, creating a partial eclipse.

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What everyone has been waiting for is something as rare as a simultaneous eclipse of the sun and the moon: a time when the four Beatles (and their widows), both Apple companies and EMI are all on the same side.

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People in a much larger region of the world can anticipate seeing a partial solar eclipse, in which the moon blocks only a fraction of the sun's disk.

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Those viewing outside the favoured zone were treated to a partial eclipse, in which the Moon just took a bite out of the side of the Sun's disc.

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The back-to-back roundhouse punches were jaw-dropping, the kind of blue-moon-eclipse results you refresh your cellphone to confirm.

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