Thoughts provoked

Oh! I was downloading eclipse , and I remembered mom watching TV an listening to the news channels buzzing around with the news of the first lunar hide n seek.... and with the astrologers telling the do's n dont's on the day of the eclipse - I remember one - not to eat during the peak time of the eclipse. Well, I looked for the time of the eclipse n came across this "delicious" pic.... err... well I was hungry na! Damn! who's gonna wait till 10 pm! I could already hear the bhangra music :P of the rehearsals the mice in my stomach were planning....! Ah! its the first lunar eclipse of 2009.. approximately 11 days after the first solar eclipse. Here's a pretty cool site I found about the celestial events in 2009 and more years. Moving from the "hunger-panged-world" to some astronomy: This illustration shows the penumbral lunar eclipse on February 9, 2009. It is fairly close to scale and illustrates how th e moon passes through the penumbral portion of