Solar eclipse (total or otherwise): at new moon.
Lunar eclipse (total or otherwise): at full moon.
-- Immediately after a Solar eclipse you get a new crescent moon appearing in the sky.
Obviously therefore the eclipse happens at the point when the side of the moon that
faces us is in total shadow - indeed during the eclipse we are covered by that shadow.
-- Immediately after a lunar eclipse, as soon as the moon moves out of the shadow, it is full.
New moon.
A total lunar eclipse can occur during a full moon phase. During this phenomenon, the Earth is positioned directly between the Sun and the Moon, casting a shadow on the Moon and creating the eclipse.
A solar eclipse can only occur at a time of a new moon.
Any degree of solar eclipse can only occur within a few hours of the instant of New Moon.
full moon phase
In a new moon
A full moon.
New Moon
IT can only occur at FULL MOON.
Only at the Full phase.
A solar eclipse can only occur at the time of New Moon.
A solar eclipse can only occur at the time of New Moon.