The Moon's Orbit and Eclipses 

Been searching for an explanation like this for so long... Finally, video which is worth..

Thanks for this video. It was exactly the level of complexity I was looking for. The animation of how the moon's orbit is tilted by 5.2 degrees and how that looks during the different seizons is very well done, very clear.

Clearly the best explanation of lunar orbital dynamics that I've seen on YT... thanks mate, love your channel (from Australia)

Thats the video I was looking for. Everything perfectly explained about Lunar orbit with great animations.

The video is gold 🥇 It has everything that I have been wanting to know about the moon's orbit. Thank you very much for making this video ❤️

Great educational value. Finally at 65yo age I get it and understand it. Now I will unfortunately forget it, probably. But I know where to renew the knowledge

Thanks a million. I thoroughly enjoyed your content and narration. To my mind, your video is second to none that I have seen. Truly educational and well explained in a logical sequence of sub-topics on the inherent nature of the moon itself and its relationship to the earth and the sun that manifest itself as our perception of an exciting, mysterious and a marvellous satellite that our moon is in our life. Wonderful!

This is the most details and easy to understand about moon's orbit. Thanks!

Wow, you have answered a few key questions I have been asking the web for a while now. This video made it all so clear - a million thanks!!!

Great way to illustrate it. Made a perfectly clear image in my mind.

I almost never saw a video with that simplicity and clarity explaining why eclipses doesn't happen each month... Masterclass.

Very clear explanation on why eclipses don't occur every month! Thank you!

gorgeous video and fantastic explanation, thank you!!

Wow..things got cleared. Thankyou..

What a wonderful lovely video, thank you! The peculiarities of the moon's orbit and particularly its inclination have left me wondering many times. I'm so happy to find a comprehensive explanation. I'd love to see more around the time-lapse sequence showing how the appearance of the moon changes over the course of an appropriate length of time, and I wonder if there is actually a repeating cycle which could be observed - it sounds like there are several cycles which are necessarily synchronised at all. Thanks again.

Great video, thoroughly enjoyed watching, this is exactly what I was looking for! Great job.

Thank you very much, I've always sought an explanation as to why eclipses do not occur every lunar month. This explanation is clear, concise and well supported with graphics.

It's very informative with a really good presentation _Thank_ _you_

Thank you so much for making this video. It finally helped me understand the lunar orbital precession visually and I had been looking for a while. Great work

Wow, what a lesson. Amazing teacher ☺️

justt wow! amazing work, thanks for sharing

Seeing how orbits intersect is perfect. Tnx

This is an amazing video! Thank you for sharing!

Christian is like the “Richard Feynman” of astronomy and astrophysics but in the era of awesome computer graphics! Thanks again!

Thank you for another amazing video! Another puzzle completed

Great explanation!

Thank you for this great explanation! So hard to find a visual like this. The only thing more I cannot visualize is why the solar eclipse shadow moves west to east when the earth's rotation is so much faster than the lunar prograde orbit around the earth.

Perfect explanation I was looking for.

This is so good and exactly what I was hoping to find on youtube.. thank you! :D

Very well explained with clear animations. I am learning at my age 83 from your top class video. Thank you for your making this video. I wonder how complex celestial mechanics is with so many variables. Your explanation for the red moon during total lunar eclipse is impressive. Thank you from India.

Great explanation of why a solar eclipse isn't seen on the entire "day side" of the earth, just a narrow strip. Thank you.

Such complexity explained so simply. Salute to you. Animations are great, voice and speed of explanation is perfect. Looking forward to more videos from you. 👍👍👍 may you make video about precision of orbital plane of moon and sidereal and synodic month? And also about Equinox??

Amazing explanation. Thanks.

Best visual representation. Fascinated by the moon

This is a wonderful video! It's very difficult for me to be able to explain why we get eclipses with the moon's orbit at a tilt. This will really help my students!

10:21 Photographer missed to erase that thing on the ”moon” that casts a shadow on the ”sunbeams” How do you create shadows on sunlight? With a sheet and some studio lamps? Pictures is from Wikipedia commons.

Thank you thank you thank you this is exactly what I was looking for

amazing. nicely explained

I was looking for this info. Finally 👍🏻

Fantastic 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰🥰

This is the best video I could ever find regarding Moon!

This is an excellent vid!!!!! Thx for sharing it

What an extraordinary explanation. Sir, you are the best teacher I ever had. It just cant get any better. This video is 2 things that don't usually coexist: technicality and beauty. May I ask what do you use for making these extraordinary animations

That earth, devoid technology gave us TECH & looking back is amazing wuts 2 come is mind-blowing!

Great Job!

Thank you very much sir,I feel very relaxed to see the video.Something got cleared.Once again thank you for sharing such kind of video.

17:00 I believe the Nodal precession is clockwise seen from above according to the simulation. And also the alignment is about 10 days earlier, NOT later. The narrative contradicts what the video is trying to explain and ends unexpectedly, don't know why?

Everything I wanted to know. Thanks!

8:29 imagine the Moon being a lens and that red line being a Sunlight focus. Sizzle sizzle. Life would be much more exciting as Moon's path is so messed up.

Great job. Thanks

If I understand well the lunar standstills are caused by the precession, when the orbit tilts in the same direction as the tilt of the earth rotation axes, they re-inforce and the moon goes higher or lower during one rotation around earth... and when the orbit tilts in the opposite direction this is lower... and exactly in between the path of the moon in the sky matches the path of the sun...

the best video!

Amazing. Thank you for sharing this video!

We don't need the ellipticity of the orbit to peek behind the corner and see a part of the rear side of the moon. The Earth has a diameter of 12000 km. The moon is something between 300 000 and 400 000 km away. As we spin on Earth once around a day, we wobble side to side with a peak-to-peak amplitude of 12 000 km and that is more than the diameter of the moon. So the moon is apparently turning a bit and we can see part of the rear side. In other words: if you and your friend living on a different continent photograph the moon at the same time and then share the pics, they will be different. One pic will show parts which are not on the other pic and vice versa. Also, if you combine the pics, you get a stereo 3D picture. The rotation of the Earth is creating a parallax base of 12 000 km.

Hey it's a wonderful video. Can you make a video on the relation on apogee perigee, full moon new moon and tides in ocean? Thanks

Outstanding! Thank you so much!

This might seem rudimentary, but I've just learnt the effects of Axial precision on on the equinoxes and solstices - for some reason I thought that they were effected by earth's elliptical orbit and that the solstices coincided with its orbital apsis!

Very useful! Thank you so much!

Clear and smart. Thank you!

Your animation of the precession cleared a lot of my thoughts. I am curious what is the reference point for the apogee and perigee - I mean what happens with the elliptical orbit of the moon around the earth, watching the solar system from above - what does it stay aligned with?

oh my god thank you. Sometimes I just have to see the diagrams cuz it's hard to visualise the orbits of both moon and earth etc.

Fantastic!

Did u mention,towards the end, the movement of the center of moons "orbit" as "counter clockwise"... Both in the image and in the animation it moved clockwise... And also clockwise tallies with the astrological calculation because the nodes move clockwise, where as rest of the planets go anticlockwise

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Conceptually this makes sense but in reality I have no idea how we were able to figure any of this out. Because also the elliptical of the earth and moon change too

You lost me at "by pure coincidence" 😂

@20083500HD can a total eclipse path take the same exact path and location again thousands, millions or billions of years later for example the total eclipse on 4-8-2024 can another total eclipse take that same path and location again if not why?

Is the moon's orbit from the moon-sun frame sinusoidal or epicyclic?

"Pure coincidence" LOL! There are so many "coincidences" that they had to call it fine tuning. Not just of the universe but also of the Solar system

So I have a question what happens to the Moon when the sun hits the moon on the Darkside of the moon what happens then to the moon because I know it has to be a phenomenon for the moon to get Sun even though it does. but it's gonna get like at least five minutes this time around in the solar eclipse.

Sir,THIS IS BEST EXPLANATION ABOUT eclipses.Pin me sir.

Sir please tell me is it possible that any full moon day moon rises from east although sun is already there .

hello sir.... can u pls help me with one qus? why sun declination is constant but moon declination varies???

10:10 Looks like Dark Souls III

The moon is turned to the Earth on one side because its center of mass is shifted towards the Earth by 5 km. This must be taken into account when landing and when orbiting the Moon.

Wow😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 omg

One Ring to rule them all...

Jupitorand saturn pulles moon towards earth

bloodmoon is created by earth atmoshpere .you mean neon ? it doesnt make sense

Is this why the moon doesn’t “show up” some nights?

What are the chances they're the same size as the sun? No such thing as coincidence in the heavens. The earth is a stationary realm and the heavens is the ones moving, not earth. It's a perfect time piece of the creator.

Above the ecliptic? Below the ecliptic? The words "above" and "below" refer to the Earth's gravitation field. "above" means farther from the Earth, "below" means closer to the Earth. For example, Australians and Europeans have the senses of above and below reversed. This "above" and "below" the ecliptic doesn't make a sense to me at all. It's undefined to me. Meaningless. The ecliptic is a plane passing through the center of the Earth, so any vectors of the Earth gravitation field within the ecliptic are going to point in a direction within the plane, so "above" and "below" cannot be used to distinguish one half-space from the other.

"The moon goes around earth" really should be "the moon goes around BY the earth", isn't it?

Interesting video, but why are we still able to see a FULL bright moon the DAYTIME if this model is accurate?

Bob Shiruncle 1 second ago how long does it take for the moon to spin around the earth? a moonth.....

What proof do you have that it is pure coincidence?

They were gifted dark matter

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Well riddle me this, Moon Man….I see the moon during the day and night. If its day in my area that means it’s night on the other half of the world. So how can I see the moon during the day (which is their night). This means the entire Earth can see the moon at the same time. If you hold a basketball up and a tennis ball and placed a micro miniature person on the side of the ball facing away from the tennis ball, there is no way for that person to see that tennis ball. Space is confusing.

What are the odds of your presumptions? Two celestial bodies appearing the exact same size also our atmosphere creates a lens effect which is why the bodies look larger near the horizon overhead.

u can c a half moon during the day

In your charts you displayed you had earth 🌎 8x bigger than the sun ... not possible... your theory is wrong...... 10:30

7:13 i knew the earth was flat

this is not accurate at all. this "science" doesnt apply to the world we live in, its a very creative and elaborate explanation, however, but not reflecting what actually happens nor the how.

By Pure Coincidence. Reductionist Ideology. Draining and Boring.

when the moon is close to earth we have eathquakes we have storm we have vulcanos

That eclipse umbera only works when you make the sun as small as you have, if make the sun 100x bigger and it cannot work, your diagram is seriously flawed.

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This is all preposterous because you do not factor in the Earth rotation every day night

That's no coincidence. The Lord created it to be that way on purpose.