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The moon needs to be new, which means it is invisible to us because it is rising with the sun. When the path of the shadow of the moon as it rotates past the sun lands someplace on the earth, a total solar eclipse is visible. There is always the shadow, but it does not always fall across the earth because of the differing angles of the moon's shadow according to its position relative to the earth.

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