Moon blocks part of Sun in rare solar eclipse

You want to see something really trippy.

The earth and the moon - don't quite orbit each other in nice flat table top planes - they are both a bit excentric and at an angle etc....

So the sun is HUGE and a long way off, but it is still huge... so the shadow from each side of the sun makes a cone of partial darkness behind the earth - and when the moon enters that it's called a partial lunar eclipse and it goes red.

But INSIDE the dim cone of partial darkness, is a pure narrow cone of absolute darkness - and on the very rare occassions when the MOON goes directly through it - because there is no light falling on the moon at all, and there is basically no AIR and DUST in space to diffuse the light around the inner cone, there is virutally absolutely NO extra light around, to light up the moon either.

So when the MOON on very rare occassions goes through the very narrow cone of complete darkness behind the earth - it disappears into the night sky - absolutely black - gone - magic - disappeared...

You see the surface of the moon is black bassalt and regolith / dust etc., and it's as dark as black coal - it's only light in the photos because the intensity of the sun, highly illuminates it.

So when you get an absolutely black moon, going into an area of space where there is NO light from the sun - "Disappear!"

I have only ever seen it ONCE - in totality, in my life time - a perfectly clear night, 2 am - no wind, hundreds of K's from the cities...

Fuck - you want to start Trippin! - Standing out in the dark watching an entire planet disappear into the night and then reappear 20 or 30 minutes later....

Far - Fucking - Out.

If you can tune into astronomy charts and tables and all the people who follow that stuff - and not the partial eclipse of the moon where it just goes dim and red... but the full eclipse - go and watch it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse

Central lunar eclipse

This is a total lunar eclipse during which the Moon passes through the centre of Earth's shadow, contacting the antisolar point. This type of lunar eclipse is relatively rare.

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/....LEdecade/LEdecade202

2022 Nov 08 11:00:22 Total 136 1.359 03h40m
01h25m Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas

https://moon.nasa.gov/news/185..../what-you-need-to-kn

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/eclipses/en/

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover..../lunar-eclipse-guide

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/....dam/nhmwww/discover/