IF there ever is also a solar eclipse in the same month as a lunar eclipse...
How many days after the lunar eclipse must it occur?
Think about it.
2007-03-05 13:17:17 · 4 answers · asked by unicycleguy1 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hi Unicycle!
Not only CAN there be an eclipse of the sun and later of the moon (or vice versa) within a month of each other. There ALWAYS MUST BE!
It's true!
It takes the moon nearly one month to pass through the corrodor of its orbit where it lies in the same plane as the sun. That's too long for there to be only one eclipse, because about two weeks after, the moon still gets in the way of the earth and sun, causing a second eclipse.
For example, this month, March 2007, there was a total eclipse on March 3rd, which you know about. What they did not tell you is that there will be a partial eclipse of the sun about two weeks later, on Monday March 19th! This eclipse is visible from Peking to Nome, Alaska (where it will be the afternoon of Sunday March 18th because of the International Date Line).
Or take the total lunar eclipse this summer, the night of August 27th-28th. There will be a partial eclipse of the sun about two weeks later on Tuesday, September 11th, visible across the southern cone of South America.
Or, consider the total eclipse of the moon the evening of Wednesday February 20th. (All three of these lunar eclipses will be visible in the Americas.) It will be preceeded by an eclipse of the sun visible that afternoon in Australia and New Zealand.
Eclipses never happen alone. They are always in pairs, and occasionally three within one month.
2007-03-05 19:05:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anne Marie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow. this is extremely cool guy - too undesirable the photos didnt paintings out MA: The sunlight? I have been given those sturdy day Sunshine - The Beatles Invisible sunlight - The Police Black hollow sunlight - Soundgarden strolling on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves i will persist with the sunlight - The Beatles Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
2016-12-14 11:46:14 · answer #2 · answered by kluesner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Approximately 14 or so, the moon has to get to the opposite side of the earth and a full period of the moon is 28 days...
2007-03-05 13:19:51 · answer #3 · answered by billybob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about 2 weeks.
2007-03-05 13:28:23 · answer #4 · answered by star2_watch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋