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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
During a central eclipse, the Moon's umbra (or antumbra, in the case of an annular eclipse) moves rapidly from west to east across the Earth. The Earth is also rotating from west to east, at about 28 km/min at the Equator, but as the Moon is moving in the same direction as the Earth's spin at about 61 km/min, the umbra almost always appears to move in a roughly west-east direction across a map of the Earth at the speed of the Moon's orbital velocity minus the Earth's rotational velocity.[24]
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So there you go... It was so hard to find a simple explanation on Wikipedia for the direction of the path of the eclipse. Did you really think the multi-century, international conspiracy of the globe wouldn't be able to come up with a bullshit excuse for this? I mean it is obviously wrong, but it does exist...