I know it takes like 8 minutes for sunlight to reach earth, so does that mean that we experience the eclipse 8 minutes after it happens? I understand that the moon isn’t nearly as far so it’s probably more of just the moon going in front of it, but it confuses me because we still see the ray of sunlight around the moon at totality, so is that light “8 minutes old”?
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The eclipse isn’t the sunlight, it’s the moon casting a shadow on you from the sunlight. So depending on your interpretation, the eclipse could “happen” the moment the shadow falls on you, which is exactly when you experience it, or when sunlight that was going in your exact direction hits the moon, which would be just over 1 second before you would have been in that sunlight.
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