Explain the difference in the areas of the globe where a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse is visible.?
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Well to start, they are very different things. \n\nA solar eclipse is then the moon blocks the light of the sun. This happens in a narrow band across the daylight side of the earth. And because the earth tilts on its axis, and the distance to the moon varies, the area that is eclipsed varies with each eclipse. Now because of the distance to the moon, the earth "just" passes into the shadow cast by the moon. So the actual area which gets a full eclipse is quite small, And sometimes there is not even a full eclipse.\n\nA lunar eclipse is when the moon moves into the shadow of the earth. Thus pretty much anywhere on the night side of the earth can see the lunar eclipse, as the moon is visible from all over the earth.\n\nThere are a ton of sites on the internet that can help you understand this. check them out, or start here\n\nhttp://www.astro.umd.edu/education/astro/moon/eclipses.html\n\nhttp://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html
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The plane of the orbit of the moon is close to the plane of the ecliptic, so the curve of the earth takes you a little bit closer to the moon in the tropical regions.  Therefore: Hawaii.\n\nBut it's not a big effect---not big enough to be noticable by eye.  The moon appears almost the same size from everywhere on earth.
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The moon is often visible during the daytime! If it's not visible during the daytime where you are, it's visible from somewhere else on Earth.
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The moon, when passing between the Earth and the Sun, in the proper angle, temporarily blocks sunlight and thus causes the eclipse.\n\nMore info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/solar_eclipse
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Finally a good question.\n\nThe Moon's apparent size being very similar to the Sun's apparent size is a coincidence. But the Moon doesn't always cover the Sun during an eclipse, look up annular eclipse (the looks smaller), and when it does cover it, it is usually a bit larger.\n\nBut now let's talk about the main question.\n\nWe always see the same side of the Moon because its during its full rotation around the Earth it also makes a full rotation around its axis. This is not a coincidence. There are several satellites in the solar system whose rotation is synchronized with their rotation around a planet (eg. Io around Jupiter, Charon around Pluto but also Pluto around Charon :-) etc. ).\n\nThe Earth's gravitation decreases with the distance from its center. So the Moon's opposite side (which is further away from the Earth) is attracted less by the Earth than the side which is closer. This results in the Moon being a little bit deformed along the Earth-Moon line.\nThe Moon is a little bit shaped like an egg: if it would rotate faster, it would not be elongated towards the Earth anymore, and the Earth's gravitation would try to turn it back. This is very difficult to explain without the opportunity to draw figures ... but anyway, search for tidal locking on the net, I hope you'll find a good, illustrated explanation.\n\n\nEDIT: In one answer someone said that Mercury is in a similar relation with the Sun ... this is not exactly true, as the ratio of period of its rotation and the period of its orbiting is 3/2.\n\nMercury also has an elongated shape: due to this 3:2 resonance, at its perihelion, the axis of its elongation is always parallel with the Sun--Mercury axis.\n\nEDIT2: As I said, the apparent size of the Moon is just a concidence. Other planents do get total eclipses. What does a total eclipse mean? It means that a moon casts a shadow on the planet: http://www.c-science.com/txt/images/1999/990428unssx2.jpg\n\nThere is a nice program calles Celestia, which can show you the eclipses caused by various moons on various planets (3D animations): http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
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In a solar eclipse, we see a shadow pass over the face of the sun. In a lunar eclipse, we see a shadow pass over the face of the moon.
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An eclipse is when one body is between the Earth and another, obscuring it from view.  There are different kinds,  A solar eclipse is when the moon blocks the sun.  A lunar eclipse is when the Earth blocks the sun's light from reaching the moon, causing our shadow to pass over it.
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When the objects (Sun, Moon, Earth) are in a same line. Let's explain it for the following types:-\n1)Solar Eclipse - In this condition, the order is -Sun, Moon, Earth in an exactly straight line. It always takes place on the day of New Moon \n2)Lunar Eclipse- In this condition, the order is Sun, Earth, Moon in a straight line. It always takes place on the day of Full Moon
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A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes in front of the Sun and obscures it totally or partially. This configuration can only occur at New Moon, when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction, as seen from Earth. A total solar eclipse is considered by many to be the most spectacular natural phenomenon that one can observe.\n\nHow scientist know that there is going to be an eclipse? because they know the line of path the moon and earth is moving and its speed and stuffs.
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if you mean like a new moon (solar eclipse) <every new moon, and a full mooon (lunar eclipse) <every full moon:\n\nbecause the earth and moon are not on the same plane, and the moon is in a higher altitude than earth, and the moon only crosses sometimes into the earth's plane with the sun.
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Think of three balls in a gym.  a Basket ball, a golf ball, and a tennis ball.  Now think of the basket ball as being lit, its the biggest so we will pretend its the sun.  the earth would be the tennis ball, and the golf ball would be the moon.  well when the golf ball got between the sun and the earth it would create a cast shadow on the tennis ball, but its not big enough to put the entire tennis ball in shadow... that is why only part of the earth can see the eclipse.
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A solar eclipse occurs when another planet (or the Moon) passes between the the Earth and the Sun and blocks the light from reaching the Earth.
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SOLAR Eclipse Is When The MOON Is Directly Between The EARTH And SUN (Blocking The Suns Rays From The Earth)
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lunar eclipses take place only during full moon, and if the moon passes through a part of the earth's shadow.\n\nsince we have a full moon at least once every 29.5 days, one does wonder why we don't have a lunar eclipse every month. \n\nfact is, the moon orbits arond the earth at five degrees to the earth's orbit around the sun. this means that the moon is either above or below the plane of the earth's orbit. this plane (of earth's orbit around the sun) is important because this is where earth's shadows lie. during full moon, the moon passes above or below earth's shadows, therefore we don't get a lunar eclipse. in a year, though, the moon gets to pass twice up to 4 times through part of the earth's shadows -- which causes a partial or total lunar eclipse.
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You mean the moon and the sun, which is true\nsometimes, but there are also eclipses where\nthe moon is smaller than the sun, so a small\nring of light is left uncovered (called an annular\neclipse)...\n\nBy a stroke of amazing coincidence, both the\nmoon and the sun are approx 108 times as\nfar from the earth as their diameter, so they\nappear the same size in the sky... 108 is a\nmystic number in spirituality, so I doubt if this\nis really a coincidence!
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Day or night, you are seeing the portion of the moon that is facing the sun. The only time Earth blocks illumination of the moon is during a lunar eclipse, which happens only two or three times a year.
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Venus (called the Morning Star as it is visible in twilight) should be pretty bright in the eastern sky. \n\nI'm ignoring the moon or sun as you will immediately recognise them (hopefully). the moon appears at different positions at different times of the month.