Solar versus lunar eclipse full#

Plane of the moon's rotation is at a five-degree angle with the plane of the Earth and the sun. Plane as the rotation of the Earth around the sun. The moon around the Earth is not in the exact same We do not have a solar eclipse every time we are in the new moon position is that the rotation of

We can see it right over here and so this would be the new moon position where the moon is between Question, looking at the scale of the Earth and the moon,

Solar versus lunar eclipse full#

The light from the sun that's being reflected on the moon? So the big question is, whyĭon't we see a solar eclipse every new moon and whyĭon't we see a lunar eclipse every full moon? If we wanna ask the same Would typically see a full moon, the Earth is between the moon and the sun. When the moon is on the other side of the Earth, when we Out the sun in that scenario? And we also talked about Here, 93 million miles away, and so wouldn't the moon block In a new moon position? After all, the sun would be out Why doesn't that block out the sun every time we are Seeing the side of the moon that is not lit up. Point of view of someone standing on Earth, you're Sun, and so from the Earth's point of view, or from the New moon is when the moon is between the earth and the As the moon has its 28-dayĬycle around the Earth, we talked about how a Video, we asked ourselves a very important question.