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===Lunar eclipses=== When the Moon moves into [[Earth's shadow]], a [[lunar eclipse]] occurs, during which all or part of the Moon's face may appear reddish due to the [[Rayleigh scattering]] of blue wavelengths and the [[atmospheric refraction|refraction]] of [[sunlight]] through [[Atmosphere of Earth|Earth's atmosphere]].<ref>{{cite book |first=P. Kenneth |last=Seidelmann |date=2005 |title=Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac |isbn=0-935702-68-7 |chapter=Phases of the Moon |publisher=University Science Books |page=478 |quote=They are the times when the excess of the Moon's apparent geocentric ecliptic longitude Ξ»<sub>M</sub> over the Sun's apparent geocentric ecliptic longitude is 0, 90, 180, or 270 ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Celestial Alignment without Lunar Eclipse; from google (full moon earth block sunlight) result 2 |url=http://people.bu.edu/sscruggs/earthandmoon3.html |access-date=19 September 2016 |archive-date=7 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007061804/http://people.bu.edu/sscruggs/earthandmoon3.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=tilted from the ecliptic by about 5 degrees; from google (full moon earth block sunlight) result 3 |url=http://www2.astro.psu.edu/users/rbc/a1/lec3n.html |access-date=19 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628034821/http://www2.astro.psu.edu/users/rbc/a1/lec3n.html |archive-date=28 June 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Lunar eclipses happen only during a full moon and around points on [[orbit of the Moon|its orbit]] where the [[natural satellite|satellite]] may pass through the planet's shadow. A lunar eclipse does not occur every month because the Moon's orbit is [[orbital inclination|inclined]] 5.145Β° with respect to the [[ecliptic]] plane of Earth; thus, the Moon usually passes north or south of Earth's shadow, which is mostly restricted to this [[plane of reference]]. Lunar eclipses happen only when the full moon occurs around either [[orbital node|node of its orbit]] (ascending or descending). Therefore, a lunar eclipse occurs about every six months, and often two weeks before or after a [[solar eclipse]], which occurs during a [[new moon]] around the opposite node.
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