Captured by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander on March 14, 2025.

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    The earth (one celestial body) is partially obscuring the sun (another celestial body) relative to the Blue Ghost lander (the designated observer).

    It’s an eclipse.

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      If you’re on the earth it’s an eclipse. On the moon nothing is between you and the sun, or you and the earth.

      Put another way, an eclipse is only an eclipse from a certain observation point. For example, the crew of Integrity observed a solar eclipse on their way around the moon. The moon was between them and the sun. There was no eclipse for the rest of us on earth.

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        Check out Mr. Confidentially Incorrect over here. An eclipse is exactly the definition you posted, I’m not sure how you could read it so wrong.