If you mean compared to a lunar eclipse, then yes.
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solar eclipse
Nothing will happen if you are born during a solar or lunar eclipse.
4.1 Solar eclipse; 4.2 Lunar eclipse
Eclipses in 2012 . . . -- May 20 . . . Annular solar eclipse -- June 4 . . . Partial lunar eclipse -- November 13 . . . Total solar eclipse -- November 28 . . . Penumbral lunar eclipse First one in 2013 . . . -- April 25 . . . Partial lunar eclipse
lunar eclipse.
A solar eclipse.
The next total lunar eclipse will happen in Alaska on December 21, 2010. The next total solar eclipse will happen in Alaska on August 21, 2017
every 6 months For a lunar eclipse. solar eclipse take a lot longer.
They rarely ever happen, and it is cool to watch. (They happen on the average 2.3 times every year, same as lunar eclipses, but they're still cool to watch.) The thing that makes them seem rarer is that a little over half the planet sees every lunar eclipse. To see a solar eclipse, though, you have to be in a very specific region, so for any given spot you're likely to see a lot more lunar eclipses than solar ones.
There is a solar eclipse when the moon blocks the sun from the Earth. A lunar eclipse is when the earth block the sun from the moon.