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12 years ago
Why do many more people have a chance to witness a total lunar eclipse than a total solar one? 
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Everyone on the night side of the world can look up and see the full Moon moving through the earth's umbral shadow, but only the few people right in the Moon's very narrow umbral shadow can see totality; the earth is a lot bigger than the Moon, and thus casts a much larger shadow. 
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