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An eclipse takes place when the Moon is new or full,when it is aligned with the Sun and the Earth in the plane of the ecliptic (2):when the Moon is new it is an eclipse of the Sun and when the Moon is full it is an eclipse of the Moon. When the line of the lunar nodes intersects the Earth’s

plane of rotation around the Sun and the Moon’s plane of rotation around the Earth (1), an eclipse will take place if the node coincides with the New Moon or the Full Moon.

NEXT ECLIPSES

Eclipses of the Moon :

• 21 december 2010 : total eclipse reaching its maximum at 8:16 (GMT) 
• 15 june 2011 : total eclipse reaching its maximum at 21:13 (BST)

Eclipses of the Sun :

• 4 january 2011 : partial eclipse reaching its maximum at 9:51 (GMT)  visible in northwest Africa, western Europe and central Asia.
• 1 june 2011:partial eclipse reaching its maximum at 23:16 (BST)  visible in eastern Asia, northern North América,  Greenland and Iceland