ASTR 1101 Chapter : CW6
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One solar eclipse and one lunar eclipse each lunar month. Just after sunset, or around 7pm, or in dusk, or early evening. Classwork #6 (1) if the orbit of the moon was in the same plane as the orbit of the earth (i. e. , no. 5 tilt), then how many lunar and solar eclipses per lunar month would there be? . Moon"s orbit allows the moon to often pass over or under the sun as it moves through the sky. With no tilt, the moon"s path in the sky will follow exactly along that of the. Sun, so every month as the moon catches up and passes the sun, it will pass in front of the sun, causing a solar eclipse. The moon goes around the sky once a month, so it would pass over the sun once a month. Similarly, every month the moon will pass into the.
