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Technically it CAN'T be aligned with the planets, because the planets' positions change all the time.
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Full Moons and New Moons are "eclipse season", since eclipses happen only at those times. They are the times when the sun earth and moon are closest to being in a straight line. So the tidal effects of the moon and the sun are working together. The sun's tidal effects on the earth are not very strong compared to the moon's, but they do have the effect of adding to the lunar tides as these times.
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When the moon, earth and sun are aligned you get eclipses. If the moon is between the earth and sun then you get a solar eclipse - the moon goes in front of the sun from earths view point. This is also the time when there is a new moon or no moon. We can't see it as the light being reflected off it from the sun is on the other side. A lunar eclipse is when the earth is in the middle, And causes a shadow on the moon. This is at the time of a full moon. We don't always see an eclipse at new moon or full moon as the alignment has to be spot on. The orbits of moons and planets are not regular circles.
Because - a lunar eclipse is when Earth blocks the sun's rays from hitting the moon. This can only happen when the sun, Earth and the moon are nearly perfectly aligned (meaning when Earth comes between the sun and moon - which is when we have a full moon.)
the moon is at new or full moon phases in other words between earth and sun, or 'behind' earth. This is because the gravitational pull works with the sun.
That's a Full Moon ... 14.77 days after the New Moon. If the moon also happens to be directly in line with Earth's shadow ... not above it or below it ... then you have a lunar eclipse at the time of the Full Moon.
The Moon, Sun and Earth are not perfectly aligned every month. Therefore there is not an eclipse every full Moon. The reason the alignment is usually not perfect is that the Moon's orbit is tilted relative to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
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