Lunar eclipse is expected to reduce festivities
Patna: As the year 2009 witnessed a total of four lunar eclipses and two solar eclipses, it will have its
last lunar eclipse 31 December. The different phases
the eclipse would start at 10:45 on 31 December and ended at 3 am 1 January.
Year 2010 will witness two and two lunar eclipses. Furthermore, the incomplete lunar eclipse on New Year’s Eve is possible to reduce the spirit of New Year celebrations that begin at midnight on 31December.
Like many young people said: “We have been asked by the elders in our family to stay inside and not to eat or drink in the eclipse. So many will now sit at home welcoming 2010 in its place of rocking in a club or a disco.”
Though, astronomers are gearing up to explore the correct position of the planets in the eclipse has a different view.”2009 is the International Year of Astronomy as it coincides with the 400-year anniversary of the first astronomical comments by Galileo Galilee.It is only the movement of the earth, sun and moon, and has nothing to do with fortune,”said Indira Gandhi Planetarium Director Amitabh Gosh.
‘2010 Will be wealthy this year, but health problems Mumbaikars
Fortune tellers are in difference over how Mumbaikrs to celebrate New Year on Thursday evening when it will be a solar eclipse after midnight for 1224. According to astrologer Pandit Rajkumar Sharma, avoid going out Thursday between 3:22 and 7 on Friday. “Pregnant women should be especially careful,”he said.”All Mumbaikars should give up from drinking, eating and sex.”But,”says numerologist Winston Jumani people should not waver to celebrate the New Year, but should be in control and not overuse. “The moon affects your mind and control of the mind is compulsory,”
Lunar eclipses for beginners
the moon is a cold, rocky body about 2160 miles (3476 km) in diameter. It has no light of its own but shines by sunlight reflected from the plane.The moon goes around the Earth once every 29 and half days. As it circles our planet, the changing position of the moon with respect to the sun causes our natural satellite to cycle through several stages:
Types of lunar eclipsesAn eclipse of the Moon (or lunar eclipse) can only happen at full moon, and only if the Moon passes through some of Earth’s shadow.The shadow is actually composed of two pointed parts, one nested inside the other.The external or minimal shadow is a zone where Earth blocks part but not all the sun’s rays from reaching the moon. In contrast, the inner or umbral shadow a area where Earth blocks all direct sunlight from success the moon.