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Re:Is it possible for a lunar eclipse to occur before sunset? by supernova87a on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:33PM (#34266141)
It is possible (atmospheric effects as stated by others/the article), but not in a useful sense of having something that looks impressively like a lunar eclipse.

In other trivia, expect that a solar eclipse will also happen somewhere on Earth in any month that has a lunar eclipse. (exactly because of similar alignment issues)

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Re:Is it possible for a lunar eclipse to occur before sunset? by gweinberg on Thursday January 05, 2023 @05:10PM (#34267570)
Isn't that only true the other way around? The earth is bigger than the moon, so I'd think sometimes you'd get a total lunar eclipse when there's only a partial corresponding solar eclipse, and diddly when there's only a partial lunar eclipse.
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Re:Is it possible for a lunar eclipse to occur before sunset? by supernova87a on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:18PM (#34278653)
Oh, I don't mean exactly the same magnitude of eclipse -- just that whether annular/partial/etc, if there is a lunar eclipse, there will generally be a solar eclipse (of any type).
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