Lunar eclipses



When the sun, earth and the moon stand on one line, the moon will be eclipsed. Covered in a spooky red glow the full moon stands eclipsed at the sky.
As a beautiful round full moon the moongodess hides behind the earth against the light of the sun. Seeing less and less of her she becomes less clear at the sky until the momentg she is completely captured in the shadow of the earth.
Eventually the moongodess comes out of the shadow of the earth en comes in her full glory on the sky.
You should think that the moon isn't visible during a total lunar eclipse, because all the light of the sun is blocked by the earth. But the moon gets her copperred glow due to the diffraction of sunlight by the earth's atmosphere.

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