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  • wewbull@feddit.uk
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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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      1 day ago

      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.