Interference With Eclipse

Here is one of the most spectacular picture taken during the Partial Solar Eclipse on July 22nd, 2009 at Hong Kong. The picture shows a very rare and unusual pattern of sunlight. The pattern seen here is known as the Interference Pattern. This is caused due to the superposition of the direct sunlight and the light reflected from the  window grids of the building on the left. (To know more about Superposition of light, check your 12th Physics Book ). This picture was taken from the 27th floor of a building.

Geminids Possible?

The time is 3 am on the day of the Geminids. I just went up to my terrace to have a look at the sky. Just as I hoped there wasn't any clouds. I was really happy about it. But something else started bothering me. It was the full moon. The moon was very bright. It was almost near the zenith (the point exactly over your head). The moon was so bright such that even the great Orion Constellation was very dull. And the stars in the sky was countable. All I could see on the sky other than the moon was the Orion belt, Betelguese, Regiel, Sirius, Regulus, Pollux, Arcturus, Canopus, Capella, Aldebaran, Procyon and ofcourse Saturn. The number of stars in the sky is so easily countable. I wonder how many of the meteors can actually be seen. Its gonna be difficult but I'll never let my hopes down.

Geminids 2008

Hi guys... Its meteor showers tomorrow. Its called Geminids because the meteors appear to originate near the Gemini constellation. Geminids are one the best meteor showers of the year. Its bright and you can catch up as much as 100 meteors an hour. So look around the sky between 8 pm on Dec 13th, saturday until 4am on Dec 14th, sunday.

For other details visit the post "Geminids 2008" on my other blogspot blog, "Fly With a Twitter".

Being Full Moon, we may only be able to catch up bright meteors. So be patient. Happy meteor hunting.