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Binary planet eclipses

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I know that on a binary planet you would have planetary eclipses (basically like a solar or lunar eclipse but with planets instead of moons).
If there also is a moon, things would be much more complicated.

With a binary planet and 1 moon you could get:

  • Double lunar
  • Lunar + solar
  • Lunar
  • Solar
  • Double solar

And with the double eclipses you basically have these factoring in:

  • Type (partial, penumbral (total but in penumbra), and total for lunar and partial, total, and annular for solar)
  • Visibility from planet (both from 1 or 1 from each)
  • Periodicity (how periodic the eclipses are - which I think would be almost or absolutely periodic in binary planets)

But would a lunar eclipse generally be visible from each planet and same for solar or would it vary a lot (taking the moon's path into consideration).

I think it would vary a lot since I think the moon would move in a figure 8 around the planets.

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