Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Total Solar Eclipse 2009

The July total solar eclipse is considered unusually long. This will be a spectacular total eclipse, lasting over 6½ minutes at maximum and visible to millions of people over a path up to 258 km wide. The total solar eclipse of July 22 2009 will be visible across south-east Asia and the western Pacific. Millions of people in Asia will experience almost an hour of the the moon creeping across the sun's disc until finally being plunged into total darkness in the day.
For Hindu's in India, this eclipse has special significance, as it occurs in the Vedic months Aadi (July-Aug), the first New Moon of the Vedic Solstices. These signify a divine time shift for the celestial bodies and represents a perfect opportunity to appease your ancestors and receive great blessings. According to Vedic myth, millions of celestials, including the nine planets, who are all divine beings, participate and join together in prayer during the total Solar eclipse. This happens once every two or three lifetimes for a perfect Solar eclipse to occur like the one this month. The previous total eclipse, in August 2008, lasted two minutes and 27 seconds. This one will last six minutes and 39 seconds at its maximum point.
                                  
Total solar eclipses usually take place about once every 18 months, and always at new Moon - when the lunar body sits directly between the Sun and the Earth. The next total solar eclipse will occur on 11 July next year. It will be visible in a narrow corridor over the southern hemisphere, from the southern Pacific Ocean to Argentina. The next total solar eclipse seen in Hawaii will be in 2106. For more info, check out  solar eclipes 2009.    
You can also google all about Total Solar Eclipse 2009 at:
1. http://bawaal.com/blog/1034-longest-total-solar-eclipse-of-the-21st-century-on-july-22-2009
Happy reading and watching...


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