Why won't you answer the sniper question? Or the Sun dial question that I gave to MrJesse?
Bury your head deeply in the sand and maybe eclipses will go away. Remember, you can always fall back on invicible ignorance. Even now, its comforting shores are beckoning. But was it Philip K. Dick who said that reality is the thing that doesn't go away when you stop believing in it? Wake up! Look at the pictures. Apparent position of the Sun, actual position of the Sun, apparent position of the moon, and actual position of the moon, all in the same place. And a straight line through the real Sun, the real moon, and the observer on Earth. Dramatic, no? Much like a stake driven through an undead vampire, it rids the world of this 2.1 degree solar lag theory of yours.