🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to [email protected] • 8 hours agoAnon has prioritiessh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up1278arrow-down17
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink29•edit-27 hours agoNo. “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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-26 hours agoa 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)
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