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Solar Eclipse

The Moon passes directly between the Sun and the Earth, and at their varying distances they will appear almost the same size in the sky. The edge of the solar atmosphere (corona) will be visible around the Moon during a solar eclipse. Even partial eclipses can only occur during a small number of lunar orbits, and always during a New Moon.

Lunar Eclipse

During a lunar eclipse, the Earth gets in the way of the Sun's light that would normally hit the Moon and be reflected down to Earth.

The Earth's shadow falls across the Moon, but because some of the light refracts through our atmosphere, the Moon, instead of being totally darkened, turns a dark red instead.

A lunar eclipse can only occur during a full moon, It will usually only be a partial eclipse, because the Earth's shadow does not cover the entire width of the lunar orbital path.

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