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Lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. [1] Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of the Earth's orbit.
A symbolic orbital diagram from the view of the Earth at the center, showing the Moon's two nodes where eclipses can occur. Up to three eclipses may occur during an eclipse season, a one- or two-month period that happens twice a year, around the time when the Sun is near the nodes of the Moon's orbit. An eclipse does not occur every month ...
Description Eclipse vs new or full moons, annotated.svg. English: A diagram illustrating the difference between a full moon and a lunar eclipse, and the difference between a new moon and a solar eclipse. This is caused by the 5° incline of the moon's orbital plane around earth, meaning that an eclipse can only happen when the moon is nearly in ...
Lunar node. The lunar nodes are the two points where the Moon's orbital path crosses the ecliptic, the Sun's apparent yearly path on the celestial sphere. A lunar node is either of the two orbital nodes of the Moon, that is, the two points at which the orbit of the Moon intersects the ecliptic. The ascending (or north) node is where the Moon ...
Saros (astronomy) The saros (/ ˈsɛərɒs / ⓘ) is a period of exactly 223 synodic months, approximately 6585.321 days (18.04 years), or 18 years plus 10, 11, or 12 days (depending on the number of leap years), and 8 hours, that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. One saros period after an eclipse, the Sun, Earth, and Moon ...
The term eclipse is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. However, it can also refer to such events beyond the Earth–Moon system: for example, a planet moving into the shadow cast by one of its moons, a moon ...
File:Lunar eclipse diagram-en.svg. File. File history. File usage. Global file usage. Metadata. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 467 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 187 pixels | 640 × 374 pixels | 1,024 × 598 pixels | 1,280 × 748 pixels | 2,560 × 1,495 pixels | 815 × 476 pixels. Original file (SVG file, nominally 815 ...
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