Then you flew your Learjet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun.

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But it was in the late 70s, while working for ABC in Australia on a radio project, that Fontana's future path as a sound artist begun, when experiencing a total eclipse of the sun in a rainforest.

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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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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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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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While a total eclipse is safe enough for the naked eye, gazing directly at a partial eclipse -- even one in which 99% of the sun is covered -- is a definite no-no.

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During an eclipse scientist are able to measure the effect of the sun on the Earth's atmosphere and observe the violent magnetic storms in outer atmosphere of the sun - the corona.

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Londoners will see a 95% eclipse, and those in the north of Scotland will see 75% of the sun hidden.

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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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During his 32nd solar eclipse observation, the Harvard-trained astronomer is to study the elusive coronal ring, the outer atmosphere of the sun, which can only be seen when the moon blots out the solar disk.

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