Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25565811-20170120101550/@comment-25565811-20170120155425

Ffets wrote: ''LOTRMod wrote: ... because the sun and moon are always perfectly opposite each other ...''

Ahm, there's a little flaw in this argumentation. If sun and moon would be always opposite each other, moon phases wouldn't happen neither. It would be always full moon. :-)

Lunar eclipses can only happen on full moons. They don't happen each full moon, because the moon is often slighty above or below the plane of the sun (ecliptic), so the shadow of the earth mostly slightly misses the moon.