Q. Why can I see farther then I ascend in altitude?
A. When you ascend in altitude you are changing your perspective lines in relation to the object the earth. You are pushing your vanishing point back. The higher up you go the farther you will see before your sight is lost to perspective. The same is reversely true for celestial bodies. The higher up they are, the longer it will take them to recede to a point where they are beyond your perspective.
Ask yourself; can you see farther if you kneel down and lay your head right against the pavement, or can you see farther from the top of a skyscraper?
As you increase your altitude you are broadening your perspective lines in relation to the earth, causing a greater length the earth must recede until it ascends to eye level with the observer. The horizon is always at eye level with the observer, from the coast of a beach to the summit of Mt. Everest. Perspective causes everything to merge into the eye level horizon. When you increase your altitude you are changing the altitude of your eye, looking at the lands beyond your previous vanishing point. It takes a greater length of land for the earth to ascend to your new eye level.
Q. What causes the Lunar Eclipse?
A. The Shadow Object causes a round shadow to manifest upon the moon as the body intersects the light between the sun and moon. Dr. Samuel Birley Rowbotham has described the Shadow Object as a satellite of the sun. Its orbital plane is tilted at an angle of about 5°10' to the sun's orbital plane, making eclipses possible only when the three bodies (Sun, Object, and Moon) are aligned and when the moon is crossing the sun's orbital plane (at a point called the node). Within a given year, considering the orbitals of these celestial bodies, a maximum of three lunar eclipses can occur. Despite the fact that there are more solar than lunar eclipses each year, over time many more lunar eclipses are seen at any single location on earth than solar eclipses. This occurs because a lunar eclipse can be seen from the entire half of the earth beneath the moon at that time, while a solar eclipse is visible only along a narrow path on the earth's surface.
Total lunar eclipses come in clusters. There can be two or three during a period of a year or a year and a half, followed by a lull of two or three years before another round begins. When you add partial eclipses there can be three in a calendar year and again, it's quite possible to have none at all.
The Shadow Object is never seen because it closely orbits the sun. As the sun's powerful vertical rays hit the atmosphere they will scatter and blot out nearly every single star and celestial body in the sky. We are never given a glimpse of the celestial bodies which appear near the sun - they are completely washed out by the sun's light.
Dr. Samuel Birley Rowbotham estimates the Shadow Object to be a few miles in diameter. Since it is very close to the sun the manifestation of its penumbra upon the moon appears as a magnified projection. This is similar to how during a shadow puppet show your hand's shadow can make a large magnified projection upon your bedroom wall as you move it closer to the flashlight.
For equations on finding the time, magnitude, and duration of the Lunar Eclipse please see
Chapter 11 of Earth Not a Globe.