Types of Lunar Eclipses

KOMPAS.com – About four to seven times a year, our Earth, Moon, and Sun line up exactly to create a cosmic scale shadow show known as an eclipse.

The Moon’s orbit around the Earth is tilted relative to the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

This tilt is why eclipses occur only occasionally, not every month.

There are two types of eclipses: lunar and solar. During lunar eclipse, Earth’s shadow obscures the Moon. During a solar eclipse, the Moon blocks the Sun from view.

Lunar eclipse occurs during the full moon phase. When the Earth is positioned directly between the Moon and the Sun, Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon’s surface, dimming it and sometimes turning the Moon’s surface red for several hours.

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According to NASA, there are three types of lunar eclipses:

1. Lunar eclipse total

Total lunar eclipse This occurs when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon and its shadow covers the Moon. Some of the sunlight that passes through Earth’s atmosphere reaches the surface of the Moon, illuminating it dimly.

Colors with shorter wavelengths, blue and purple, spread more easily than colors with longer wavelengths, such as red and orange. Because the longer wavelengths have made their way through Earth’s atmosphere, and the shorter wavelengths have spread out, the Moon appears orange or reddish in color during a lunar eclipse.

The more dust or clouds in Earth’s atmosphere during an eclipse, the more red the Moon appears.

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2. Partial lunar eclipse

The imperfect alignment of the Sun, Earth, and Moon causes the Moon to only pass through part of the Earth’s umbra.

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