Second such celestial event this year for stargazers to savour
A total lunar eclipse is expected to be observed on Saturday — the second time the Earth will cast a long shadow over the Moon this year — but stargazers in India will have to savour the moment as the next time the celestial event is expected to be observed in the country is seven years away.
“For observers in India, on December 10, the Moon will start falling under the Earth's shadow at around 6.15 p.m. The next total lunar eclipse, visible in its entirety from India will only be after another seven years in 2018,” said Dr. D. P. Duari, director (Research and Academics) of the M. P. Birla Planetarium here on Tuesday.
The total eclipse will begin at 7:36 p.m. and will last until 8:28 p.m.
Monsoon clouds had thrown a wet blanket for sky watchers during the total lunar eclipse on June 15 this year.
The December 10 eclipse, however, is likely to be more clearly visible, he added.
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what ever science says, we cannot say the other point is totally incorrect, since it is based on faith and belief. we all have to understand that Faith has no logic.
is this lunar eclipse effected to our life . this is will create any
astrology problem to our life. is it effected to our eye if we see it
with naked eye.
India is a blessed land. It has produced great saints who can predict such events very accurately.
If they see, hear, touch,smell or taste something - then only modern Scientists will believe in a hypothesis. But 1500 - 3000 years before our Roman,Hindu Astologers used mathematical projections and logical thinking as a means of establishing facts.Our ephimeris/almanacs without telescopic readings, gives us exact timing of eclipses. The modern science sees only things in limited way. Ancient science saw the whole picture. How many billions or trillions of years each yuga-like Kali yuka,etc. Specialisation has limitations-made people to see things through one large smoke glass,each. So what the modern science is doing is many people see it from their angle and say this is right. We then compromise from all of them to come to a decision. This is limiting our knowledge than expanding. Can anybody say a single scientist today knows the whole picture of cosmos and when it formed- You talk to one then he will say this is what I know and you go the next one for the next subject.
I just want to share this knowledge with those interested in astrology. Rahu and Kethu are shaddow planets (chaya gruhas) Astronomically they represent the intersection points of the locus of earth"s orbit around the Sun and the moon"s orbit around the earth.It may be noted they are always diagonaly opposite. If both the orbits are co-planar we will be witnessing solar and lunar eclipses each month.But the moon"s rotation plane is continuosly tilting.When it coincides with the earth"s plane around Sun the eclipse ocurrs. Our great saints were able to predict these events in advance,may be, based on statistical analysis of the data collected over centuries.
The religious activities associated with similar events is a matter of faith, in which science has no scope.
Thodla venkatasubramanyam,
please understand that rahu swallowing moon is as simple a model as that of earth's shadow. You see, they are all models to enable us bring a phenomenon into our comprehension and solve a particular problem. No model is complete so as to answer all the problems, and so we discard one model over other simply because the other model is a better working solution. Your requirements in scientific age are drastically different from the requirements of people of other ages who wanted a solution of different sort, and so chose that model. Hope you understand.
What ever may the belief be, it is observed that the felt results of the
eclipse has some adverse effect on some events taking place in the
universe.
solar ecliepe is very beautiful & they will very fun of life is very
good.......
dear sir,
actually all eclipse are important with view of astrology. so, if you give prediction astrologically, people will be more interested.
rgds/santosh
What ever might be belief; stop making fun of others.
What ever might be belief; stop making fun of others.
I believe in science and the logic behind it. let us all work together to the betterment of this world and the living things in it.
People in India are believing that Rahu is swallowing Sun and Moon which is Solar or Lunar eclipse. In africa when solar eclipse has occured there are certain clans believe the big fire ball has gone for a while and all the hell breakes in their hamlets. This is what man is believing. Really as per space science it is the shadow of the earth that parftially and some times total blacks-out the Sun and the moon. There are people who dont accept this scientific theory even to day. It will take generations for man to accept the truth. That is why 'Truth Always Triumph'
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