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Lunar Eclipse on Constitution Day

On Saturday night at the top of Big Buddha Mountain, the tourists and Pattaya residents gathered to wait for the lunar eclipse. This phenomenon happens when the earth moves between the moon and the sun, causing it to nearly disappear. This was 2nd Eclipse of the year and it happened to be on Thailand’s Constitution Day, provoking many predictions for the future.

The total lunar eclipse was fully visible as the skies were clear on Saturday night. The eclipse started at 7.46pm when the moon entered the Earth's penumbra. The total eclipse reached its maximum phase at 9.06pm, lasting for 51 minutes before the moon passed out of the earth’s shadow, becoming a full moon again by midnight.

Many Thai’s believe in Rahu the God of Darkness. Rahu’s two brothers are the moon and the sun and, every once in a while (i.e. when the planets are in the right position), he swallows them up only to spit them out again. So, the purpose of the noises made before and during an eclipse is to scare Rahu away, and make him release the moon. The next Lunar Eclipse will be on October 8th, 2014.


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