Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Fridolin]

That is true for the moon's shadow. It is quite small, and the moon's umbra (the cone of shadow in which no part of the sun can be seen) barely touches the earth, sometimes not at all when the apparent size of the sun is larger than that of the moon.

At a total lunar eclipse the moon is engulfed by the earth's umbra. (The moon still can be seen because of stray light from the earth's atmosphere).