12
Types
of eclipses
Solar Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
We
view the illuminated object and watch it go dark.
Everyone on one side of the Earth can see the Moon – so a given lunar
eclipse is visible to many people.
We view the illuminating object (the Sun) and
see it blocked out.
Only a few people are in the right place to be
in the shadow.
It is “coincidence” that the umbra just barely
reaches earth.
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