When the earth is stationed between the sun and the moon.
The Earth.
it is from the sun and the moon coming in line with each other that is what causes an eclipse first of all but the sun is what causes that
During a lunar eclipse, the Earth is in the middle between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment causes the Earth's shadow to be cast onto the Moon, creating the eclipse.
A shadow thrown by the Moon (solar eclipse) and a shadow thrown by the Earth (lunar eclipse).
No. In a lunar eclipse Earth is between the sun and the moon, thus casting a shadow on the moon. When the moon passes between Earth and the sun it is a solar eclipse, to an observer on Earth, the moon eclipses the sun.
The Earth has to be directly between the Moon and the Sun to caus a lunar eclipse.
The Earth
The Earth.
lunar eclipse
One week corresponds approximately to one lunar phase.
Wjhen viewing the Moon in the night sky, it will be seen in one of its lunar phases.
No. it is a solar eclipse.
Amount of light from sun that reach/reflected-by the moon as the earth revolves the sun.
it is from the sun and the moon coming in line with each other that is what causes an eclipse first of all but the sun is what causes that
During a lunar eclipse, the Earth is in the middle between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment causes the Earth's shadow to be cast onto the Moon, creating the eclipse.
its a lunar perigee. it is when the moon's track takes it the closest to the earth. this happens about every twenty years.
A month is a somewhat arbitrary period of time that loosely approximates the period of one lunar cycle.