During a lunar eclipse, does the Moon enter the Earth’s shadow from the east or the west? Explain your answer.

Question

Wouldn't it be the east because that's the same way the moon rises normally? So if it normally rises in the east it would do that again.. or would it be west because it normally rises in the east and it doesn't make a lunar eclipse?

Answer 1

From the west. Earth's shadow (and in fact, almost all eclipses that happen between two bodies in the solar system) crosses the Moon from West to Eas