Showing posts with label solar eclipse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar eclipse. Show all posts

Friday, January 15, 2010

Surya Grahan

For the first time in my life, I saw a solar eclipse with a goggles today.
It was, in one word, awesome. The corona was looking like a golden ring of fire. I was feeling that if it is not divine revelation then what is. The special things about this eclipse:
1. It is one of the longest duration annular eclipse, the duration of which won't be exceeded in a thousand years(till Dec, 3043).
2. I fasted till the eclipse ended(No, I'm not that religious; just to bring a difference to daily routine)
After the eclipse, I was damn hungry and ate like a glutton.
Being a devoted Einstein fan, I remembered that taken during one of the longest solar eclipse of the 20th century, the British scientist Arthur Stanley Eddington's photographs played a vital role in proving the theory of relativity.