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Solar eclipses are more common than lunar eclipses.
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Most people may think lunar eclipses occur more often because lunar eclipses are visible from a larger geographic area on Earth compared to solar eclipses. Lunar eclipses also last longer and are easier to observe with the naked eye, making them seem more common. However, in reality, both lunar and solar eclipses occur at about the same frequency.
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Eclipses are not getting more - or less - frequent. Eclipses - of the sun or the moon - happen at regular intervals, and are easily predictable many years in advance.
Lunar eclipses are observed more frequently than solar eclipses because the Earth's shadow is larger than the Moon's shadow, making it easier for the Moon to pass through the Earth's shadow and create a lunar eclipse. Solar eclipses, on the other hand, occur when the Moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun, which is a rarer alignment.
Sometimes there can be more solar eclipses or more lunar eclipses in a given year, but they're pretty even on average. However, because a solar eclipse is only visible along a narrow track on the Earth's surface, whereas a lunar eclipse is visible from anywhere the Moon is visible, it is much more common to SEE a lunar eclipse. ======================================= During the 100 years from 1901 to 2000, there were 228 solar eclipses and 229 lunar ones, for an average rate of about 2.3 of each per year.
On earth there are 2 eclipses, Lunar and Solar eclipses
Lunar eclipses are more common than solar eclipses because the Earth's shadow is larger than the Moon's shadow, making it easier for the Moon to pass through the Earth's shadow and experience an eclipse. Solar eclipses, on the other hand, occur when the Moon blocks the Sun's light from reaching Earth, which is a rarer occurrence due to the smaller size of the Moon's shadow.
Actually solar eclipses are slightly more common, but a solar eclipse, and especially the total phase, can only be seen in a relatively narrow strip of Earth.
In the very distant past, the Moon's orbit was closer to Earth than it is now, and the Moon continues to VERY SLOWLY recede in its orbit. So it is likely (although I have not seen any calculations to bear this out) that in the distant past there would have been fewer annular eclipses and more total eclipses. However, there was nobody around to notice.