The phenomenon of the Lunar Eclipse is evidence that something is casting a shadow on it. If the light from the moon is coming from the sun, that body must be somwhere between the path of the moon and the sun. Since we can't see any body at night, it must be on the day side
Yes you are absolutely right Tom. I don't hesitate to agree with you when you say something that is true and this is one of those occasions. The body that you talk about is the Earth itself. Common sense tells you that and the fact that you only see a total lunar eclipse at the time of Full Moon when the Earth is directly between the Sun and the Moon is a big clue to that. The Moon enters the Earths shadow and hence the Earth casts its shadow on it. Ancient astronomers and philosophers even realised that.
Please show us your model. Provide the Three Body Problem solution for the Sun-Earth-Moon system.
The Lunar Eclipse does not seem to work at all in the Round Earth model. Not only is it unable to be modeled, some of the things that occur do not appear to be physically possible for RET.
Here is one for you. The eclipse is occurring at sunrise during the selenelion eclipse:
In the video the shadow of the earth is obscuring the moon from the top down rather than the bottom up, contrary to what would be expected when the earth is passing between the moon and sun. The sun's light should be peeking over the earth's horizon and hitting the moon from the top down.
Draw a diagram. Show how this is possible to cast a shadow that moves in this way.
Where is the sun? Is the sun at A, B or C? If there is an explanation, show us how it works. If this diagram is flawed in any manner, show the correct one. It is difficult to see how any nitpicking about scale makes this possible.
Let's approach this from a different angle this time. What we need to visualize is the way the moon moves in relation to the Earth rotation and where the sun is. I'll make a small side note here, as this touches on a topic discussed elsewhere. If we were to watch this eclipse from the other side of the world (where the sun was setting) we would see exactly what you think we should be seeing here. This is because of globe nature of the Earth and how the moon shifts it's orientation to the horizon. We've touched on this before, so try and keep that at least somewhat in mind as we go forward here.
Whew, putting this together makes me wish I knew how to animate as it's gonna be rough trying to get this point across via text. But here goes. A rough sketch of the moon/Earth system. The arrows indicate the direction things are moving as we look down on it from Polaris. The Earth in blue rotates anticlockwise. The moon moves on it's orbital path anticlockwise. The whole system moves anticlockwise around the sun. This is what the arrows are for. The little red line is our viewer.
Now, as the Earth rotates around to bring the sun around to light up the horizon, and the moon sinks 'down' towards it's own horizon, the moon is moving along it's path as well. This brings it ever closer to the Earths shadow cast by the sun. If you notice, the shadow is 'above' the moon from the perspective of our red line. So as the moon moves into the shadow, it appears to creep from the top down. Again, if we were to watch this from the opposite side of the Earth we would watch the shadow move upwards from the bottom, as you no doubt expect it to.
This drawing clearly isn't to scale in any manner, I'm just hoping it can get the idea across. If I had any skills in animating I would take a swing at doing that, but alas.
EDIT: Oh, and as I know you're going to bring up the 'rising sun' bit, I'll reiterate the point from every single other time you bring this video up. The sun isn't actually risen by the time the video ends. Watch the water tower. No sunlight. This is during the 'twilight' period before the sun actually comes above the horizon, which can last for some time depending on the season. For example, today in Albuquerque twilight lasted approx. 1.5 hours.