All you can take away from the moon passing over the sun's reflection is this. The moon crossed over the sunlight reflected from the earth. To create a shadow,

All you can take away from the moon passing over the sun's reflection is this. The moon crossed over the sunlight reflected from the earth. To create a shadow, the moon must cross through the light emitted from the sun. This image might better help explain. Since the earth's orbital plane is in a different xy plane than the moon's, the moon crossing over the reflection guarantees nothing about whether it crossed the sun's emitted light. http://www.cnyo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014april10_eclipses_and_planes.jpg http://www.cnyo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014april10_e...