sri: The eclipse is NOT visible in India, Australia, Singapore.
Total Lunar eclipse (Poorna Chandra grahanam) is visible in Northern America, Canada on Feb 20/21 2008.Moon enters Umbra at 20:43 EST. The totality begins at 22:01 EST, ends at 22:51 Hours EST. The partiality ends at 12:09 EST on 21-Feb-2008.The punya kalam exists during the entire duration of the eclipse. Everyone can do snanam during the eclipse. After snanam at the beginning of eclipse, one can perform archanai mantra japam, homam etc during the eclipse. The pitru tarpanam is to be performed by the one who performs tarpanam after the moon starts to recover. In terms of time, one can perform pitru tarpanam after 10.30 PM EST. After the ending of the eclipse one can do the
snanam. Also, one can perform Perumal Tiruvaradhanam after the eclipse ended completely after the snanam. The food should be partaken 6 to 9 hours before the beginning of the eclipse.
(Reference: Sri vaishnava sadarchara nirnaya (Ahnika grantham) ) For local timings in US/Canada city please use link below: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/LunarEclipse.php
The eclipse occurs on Feb 20, 2008. Therefore the people born with the janma nakshatrams Ayilyam, Makam, Pooram, Asvini and Moolam may perform dosha shanthi for perumal preethi.
-dasan.
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