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Only a partial eclipse, about 88% coverage of the sun, was visible from Jakarta but it did not disappoint viewers.

But if you're in Queensland, and north of about Rockhampton, you should be able to see a partial eclipse from about 11am on the coast, or a bit earlier from inland.

"You'll only see a partial eclipse in New York about once every 10 years," said Frank Summers, an astrophysicist with the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.

And most people in Western Australia should be able to see a partial eclipse – start watching from about 8am.

(This, too, is an American tradition: in January of 1777, George Washington, wintering over in New Jersey, warned his troops about an upcoming partial eclipse so that it wouldn't "affect the minds of the Soldiery, and be attended with some bad consequences").

Hawaiians will see a partial eclipse when, at 3 48 p.m. Hawaii time, the moon will obscure about 32percentt of the sun's disk.

If anything, Wickham is too careful, reluctant to draw conclusions about an epoch that, no matter what new discoveries are made, will likely remain in partial eclipse.

Bill Hanlon was 13 when he watched a partial eclipse in Germany.

Now comes nature's own special effect: a partial eclipse of the sun.

More than a thousand people gathered on Hampstead Heath to view the partial eclipse.

In a partial eclipse neither star is ever completely hidden, and the light changes continuously during an eclipse.