Also, can someone explain to me why it’s only visible in certain places? If it’s during hours when the sun is out, shouldn’t you be able to see it from any place the sun is visible?
Take a lamp and shine it on the floor. Now take a marble (or similarly shaped object) and hold it between the lamp and the floor so that it casts a shadow on the floor.
Now, pretend the lamp is the sun, the marble is the moon and the floor is the earth. The marble is much smaller than the lamp bulb, and so only casts a shadow on a portion of the floor. Likewise, the moon is smaller than the sun, and so only casts a shadow on a portion of the earth. The part that is in shadow is the part that sees the eclipse.
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