Eclipses

1. Astronomy 101
Eclipses

3. Lunar Eclipse

5. Penumbral – full but dimmer
Partial- Moon enters umbra
Total- Moon totally in umbra
Red color-sunlight through Earth Atmosphere
Next Visible Total Lunar Eclipse
April , 2015

6. Lunar Eclipse 8-28-07
Gibbous Moon

8. Lunar Eclipse 2-20-08

9. Eclipsed Moon and Uranus 10-23-14

10. April 4, 2015

11. September 28, 2015

15. Total Solar Eclipses
• The Moon totally
covers the face of the
Sun.
• From inside the darkest
part of the Moon’s
shadow.
• Those inside of the
Moon’s partial shadow
see a partial eclipse.

16. Spectacular, Rare Total Eclipses

17. Annular Solar Eclipses
• When the Moon is at
its farthest position,
the cone of its
shadow doesn’t
reach Earth.
• The Moon appears to
be too small to cover
the Sun.

18. Why not every month?