The Moon Eclipses on a HOLIday

4-Mar-2007 was one of the perfect days to watch a Lunar Eclipse. Coz 4-Mar-2007 was a Sunday with everyone celebrating Holi. The preparations for Lunar Eclipse began at home since the news broke out on News Channels on 3-Mar-2007. Immediately after the news broke out, me & my mom managed for a quick Saturday afternoon nap on 3-Mar-2007. Then it was an endless wait till 4-Mar-2007 1:30 am when the Eclipse was scheduled to begin. Exactly at 1:30 me & my mom rushed to the terrace. Since it was a full moon day the entire atmosphere was lit with bright moon light. Our locality being little bit away from the heart of the City, gives you to watch an amazingly clear Night Sky (a thing to cheer about for Sky gazers). But what about the Eclipse ????? We waited for about 15-20 mins & returned back home, disappointed not to find anything interesting. Then set our Alarm clock to 4 am (coz 4:15 am was the time of total Eclipse).

Beep...Beep...Beep...4 am. Me & my mom rushed to the terrace once again & saw something which we were really looking about for. Our cool & calm Moon had been overshadowed by its master, our big blue Planet Earth, by almost 98%. Finally at quarter past 4 it was completely engulfed by the Earth's shadow. We enjoyed this natural beauty of a total Lunar Eclipse for about 10-15 mins. What interested us was that though the Moon was Eclipsed by the Earth's shadow, it was still visible in a Copper colour. We felt as if someone had lit a red colour bulb inside a huge Table Tennis ball in the sky.

We again came back home & watched many TV channels which were showing the Night Sky। I then connected to Net & also browsed through some sites which were showing live Eclipse pics all the way from Geneva. While browsing I also found out an interesting fact about the Copper colour of Moon during the Eclipse. Actually the Earth acts like a prism. So the Copper colour is due to the bending of all reddish light generated in the Earth from different countries on account of Sunrises & Sunsets occuring at that instance. Really interesting fact na.....

Finally we retired to bed at around 5 am & woke up at 8:30 am to get ready for the HOLI day.
The entire day was then colourful for me celebrating the festival of colours with my friends & relatives at my new residence.