Why can't you see the solar eclipse everywhere on aug 1?

Question

not at the same time, but everywhere.

Can you see it from the North Eastern side?

just like the lunar eclipse, why cn't we see solar eclipse. does it happen every year?

what happens? does this event happen in daylight or night?

Answer 1

You can see a lunar eclipse from almost everywhere when it happens because the Moon is moving into the Earth's shadow, which is much bigger than the Moon.  But the Moon is actually a little bit smaller in the sky than the Sun, which is evident during an eclipse - only parts of the Earth will be looking from the right angle for the Moon to seem to cover the Sun completely; others will see part of it covered up, and others the Moon will just appear to miss it.  It's like holding up your thumb to cover the Moon and then moving your head back and forth - it only works from one angle.

Answer 2

The northeastern side of what?  The solar eclipse that takes place on August 1, 2008 will be a total eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.039 that will be visible from a narrow corridor through northern Canada (Nunavut), central Russia, western Mongolia, India and China. It belongs to the so-called midnight sun eclipses, as it will be visible from regions experiencing midnight sun.

A partial eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including eastern North America and most of Europe and Asia.

The partial eclipse will be visible over north-eastern Canada, most of Asia and Europe, and the Middle East between 08:04:07 UT and 12:38:28 UT.

Answer 3

The Moon is (physically) smaller than the Sun.  Therefore, it casts a shadow that has the form of a cone, that gets smaller as you move away from the Moon.

The cone of shadow barely makes it to Earth's surface and measures just a few kilometres across.  It moves so that it covers a band that is just a few kilometres wide.

To see a total eclipse, you have to be inside this cone (you have to be standing on the spot where the cone of shadow touches the ground).

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The Earth casts a much larger cone of shadow.  When the Moon enters the cone, it can fit completely inside.  The whole Moon gets dark.

Anyone who can see the Moon at that time, will see the Moon get dark.

Answer 4

A solar eclipse happens on the earth, whereas a lunar eclipse happens on the moon; you can just see its effects from the earth.  But on the moon, during a lunar eclipse, it would look different from different locations on the moon, just as a solar eclipse looks different from different locations on the earth.

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BTW when I say it "happens" on the earth or the moon, I mean that's where the shadow falls.