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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 ...
{{Infobox lunar eclipse}} is an {{}}-based template that acts as a summary of information for an article on a specific lunar eclipse.It is largely designed to present the most relevant information on an eclipse to a casual astronomer, and intentionally omits highly specific details such as geocentric coordinates and delta T to avoid information bloating and keeping the infobox as short as ...
Template:Lunar eclipse set 1958–1962. Template:Lunar eclipse set 1962–1965. Template:Lunar eclipse set 1966–1969. Template:Lunar eclipse set 1969–1973. Template:Lunar eclipse set 1973-1976. Template:Lunar eclipse set 1977-1980. Template:Lunar eclipse set 1980-1984. Template:Lunar eclipse set 1984-1987.
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 ...
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 ...
A total lunar eclipse took place on Sunday 16 July 2000, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2000. The Moon passed through the very center of the Earth's shadow. Totality lasted for 106 minutes and 25 seconds, the longest duration since 13 August 1859 (106 minutes and 28 seconds) and 3 May 459 (106 minutes and 32 seconds), and totality of ...