Find out where and when one will occur and go there.
(I did. It was fantastic.)
It's the other way around; more people can see a total lunar eclipse than a total solar eclipse. The reason is that a lunar eclipse happens on the Moon; it is visible from half of the Earth's surface. A solar eclipse occurs along a narrow track across the Earth, and 75% of the Earth's surface is oceans.
The moon is never "blocked out". It's not even clear what that might look like, or what it means. -- During a solar eclipse, the moon gets in the way, so that you can't see the sun for a few minutes. -- During a lunar eclipse, the Earth gets in the way, so that the sun can't shine on the moon and light it up for a few hours.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves between the Earth and the Sun in such a way that the moon blocks light traveling to the Earth. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse#2008-2011 for a list of recent and upcoming solar eclipses.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves between the Earth and the Sun in such a way that the moon blocks light traveling to the Earth. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse#2008-2011 for a list of recent and upcoming solar eclipses.
Lunar eclipses are visible only at night, whereas you can only see a solar one during the day.
At the time of a solar eclipse, nothing on the moon's surface has changed from the way it always is at the time of a 'New Moon'.
Definitely not!! When we see a solar eclipse, the sun hasn't changed in any way. The dark shadow we see moving over the sun is the moon passing between the earth and the sun. Since the moon is 1/6 the size of the earth and the sun is 100 times larger than the earth there is no way to completely block the suns light from reaching the earth via the moon. Due to this size difference, in different parts of the world, we would see different things during a solar eclipse. A solar eclipse of the northern hemisphere would be but a partial if not a non existent eclipse in parts of the southern hemisphere.
A lunar eclipse. A solar eclipse is the other way around when the moon passes between the Earth and Sun. This would be a solar eclipse
The moon does.
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When the sun almost lines up with the moon, but not all the way and shows a partial solar eclipse.
it looks that way but its not