This can only happen at new moon.
New moon.
This can only happen at new moon.
The moon will be in its first quarter phase a week from tonight after the new moon phase.
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.
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.
A Lunar eclipse occurs only when the moon is in its full moon phase.
During a solar eclipse, the moon phase is a new moon. This is when the moon is positioned directly between the Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow on Earth and causing an eclipse.
During a solar eclipse, the moon must be in the new moon phase.
Any degree of solar eclipse can only occur within a few hours of the instant of New Moon.
Then the total phase of the eclipse would last longer. Also, it is more likely that there is a total phase at all.
This is a lunar eclipse, not an eclipse of the Sun. In this case the answer is the Full Moon.
The correct order during a lunar eclipse is penumbral phase, partial phase, and then total phase. During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon, casting its shadow on the Moon.