Total Lunar Eclipse: Finding Red Moon
Yesterday was December 10, 2011, the human rights day meanwhile it's the night of total lunar eclipse of this year. My mom called me, 'Dear son, today is khagras chandragrahan , take your dinner before grahan happens otherwise Rahu will make it impure.' 'Ok mom.' I said to mom as an obedient child. I took my dinner before lunar eclipse happened. This put me on ease that I fulfilled my mom's desire. Though I know the scientific basis behind the lunar eclipse, I did not retort my mom. Linar eclipse trail After dinner, I went up at top of my apartment at 18:30 hour; partial lunar eclipse was already there. I unfolded the tripod and attached the 450D camera on the top of tripod. It was rather cold; my hands were getting frozen but my both hands were busy to focus on the moon to take the snap. I alternately took the photos of eclipse on Av-mode and M-mode of canon with EF lens-18 to 55mm. I found red moon on eclipsed side on Av mode as scientist mentioned th