In: Physics
1. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon casts a shadow over Earth. They do not happen every month because the moon’s orbital plane is tilted to the plane of the ecliptic or in other words the Earth's orbit around the sun is not in the same plane as the Moon's orbit around the Earth.
2. The points where the Moon crosses the plane of the Earth’s orbit are known as nodes. Due to Sun's gravitational pull, they move counterclockwise around the Moon’s orbit. The regression of the nodes is cyclical, and the nodes return to the same location after approximately 18.61 years. Any two eclipses separated by 18.61 yr occur at the same node with the Moon at nearly the same distance from Earth and at the same time of year.
3. A greater number of people say they have seen more total lunar eclipses than central solar eclipses because the entire nighttime hemisphere of the Earth is exposed to the lunar eclipse, giving (more than) half of the Earth’s surface availability to the event. Moreover, the Earth casts a much larger shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse than the Moon casts on Earth during a solar eclipse and the umbral shadow of the moon in a central solar eclipse is a narrowing cone.
4. Solae eclipse occurs when the Sun, Moon and Earth are aligned. The combined gravitational pull of the Sun and moon cause high tides during the solar eclipse.
How did the ocean say hello to the sun after the eclipse? It waved