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Lunar eclipse

A full moon near a lunar node, when Earth's shadow falls on the Moon.

Same logic as a solar eclipse: only when the full moon happens near a node does Earth's shadow actually reach the Moon. That's why solar and lunar eclipses arrive in pairs about a fortnight apart — an eclipse season.

There are three kinds, by which shadow the Moon enters: total (fully into the umbra), partial (partly into it), and penumbral (only the outer shadow, barely visible to the eye). These are computable from the data, so this site does state them.

Lunar eclipses are often read as amplified full moons — culmination, something concluding.

On this siteevery eclipse, grouped by season