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What is the difference between eclipses and tides?

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  1. Ali M gave you an excellent answer and I gave him a thumb-up. He said what most people forget: The sun is also a factor in the tide and it accounts for about 30% of the tidal difference.


  2. An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another.

    Tides are the rising and falling of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the oceans. Tidal phenomena can occur in any object that is subjected to a gravitational field that varies in time and space, such as the Earth's land masses.

    Around new and full moon when the Sun, Moon and Earth form a line , the tidal forces due to the Sun reinforce those of the Moon. The tide's range is then maximum: this is called the spring tide, or just springs and is derived not from the season of spring but rather from the verb meaning "to jump" or "to leap up", thats also when eclipses happen as moon, sun, and earth line up. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide for a picture.

    i told you the relationship, but eclipses and tides are two different phenomena i don't know what you mean by the "difference"

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