Talk:Sun Wukong/@comment-4010415-20140725023417/@comment-4010415-20141130124012

Lunar eclipses usually make the moon look red or a similar color and are a result of the sun lining up perfectly behind the Earth with the moon in front of the Earth.

Basically, solar eclipse is sun -> moon -> planet, resulting in a black circle over the sun, while you can still see the bright umbra from the sun around the moon. Don't look directly at it, btw.

While lunar eclipse is sun -> planet -> moon, with the sun's light traveling past the Earth and even through the water of Earth's oceans to make the moon look red.