a lunar eclipse only takes a few hours
not all night
They can be over 6 hours with ideal conditions, which could be all night during the summer at higher latitudes. (On the summer solstice, my city only gets around 5 hours of night + astronomical twilight).
Should have asked her if she wants to join him watching the lunar eclipse.
Yeah. That would have been the real pro move.
Lunar eclipse? As in a new moon that happens every month?
No. “New moon” is just the night side of the moon facing us. A lunar eclipse is when the Earth blocks sunlight from the moon, which can only occur on a full moon approximately every six months.
a new moon only blocks the sun periodically because the moon’s orbit has a 5 degree inclination:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Lunar_Orbit_and_Orientation_with_respect_to_the_Ecliptic.svg/440px-Lunar_Orbit_and_Orientation_with_respect_to_the_Ecliptic.svg.png (png is black on transparent)
What would be a solar eclipse though
When the moon is directly between the earth and the sun, during the day.
Solar eclipse is when the moon is between the sun and the earth. Lunar eclipse is when the earth is between the moon and the sun. A “new moon” is just when the side of the moon that we can see isn’t facing the sun.
A new moon is when the moon is between the sun and earth. A full moon is when the moon is behind the earth, and a lunar eclipse is when the earth blocks the sun on the moon during a full moon cycle.
Sounds aromantic and/or ace to me.
Uhm, lunar eclipses aren’t visible. Or did i mix that up?
Yeah they are, they happen when the full moon passes through the Earth’s shadow
Lunar eclipses are visible everywhere you can see the moon (roughly half of the earth)
Solar eclipses are only visible in the shadow of the moon, which is very tiny comparatively.
