What are the eclipses and occultations?
An occultation is a complete obscuration of the light of an astronomical body, most commonly a star, by another astronomical body, such as a planet or a satellite, without any interaction between the bodies involved. This
is purely apparent and related to the observer. Hence, a total solar eclipse is the occultation of the Sun by the Moon .
An eclipse is the result of the total or partial masking of a celestial body by another
along observers’ line of sight and regardless of their position.
Solar eclipses result from the blocking the relative to the ; thus , and all lie in one line.
Lunar eclipses work the same way in a different order: , and all in one line, the Earth’s shadow hiding the Moon from view.
This phenomenon is visible to any observer of the Moon, regardless of its position on the surface of the Earth or in space.
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