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The Earth's shadow cone is located at a fixed
location along the Ecliptic plane, opposite the sun. This means
that, depending on the fixed direction of the Earth's shadow cone in the
sky, the Moon may overlap the umbral region, or pass through it. The
projected path of the moon's orbit in the sky is affected by parallax,
which in turn controls the view of the Earth's fixed shadow overlapping
the moon during the lunar eclipse from different observation points on
Earth.
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