cook and eat after sunrise it is believed that ultraviolet rays which are all the more intense during the eclipse would harm the persons health by affecting the food the children the aged and the invalid are exempted it is only after the grahana moksha and a cleansing bath that food can be cooked and eaten the days fast allows people to drink water daivagna somayaji astrologer said that the grahana was believed and seen to affect women in their early pregnancies mental patients and those who had weak nerves during the hours of the eclipse it is not advisable to have food intake and output taking food will have affect digestion he added scientific view scientists say that there is no scientific proof that a solar eclipse is harmful except to the naked eye doctors too echo it dr joshna krishnappa physician said there was no medical basis to saying food should not be consumed during the eclipse hours people believe uv rays might harm food kept outside but that is highly unlikely and medically no harm comes out of eating when there is a solar eclipse she said gyan on solar eclipse a solar eclipse happens when the moon passes directly between earth and the sun when the moons shadow falls on earth people within that shadow see the moon block a portion of the suns light the moons shadow has two parts an umbra and a penumbra the umbra is the inner part of the shadow which appears to black out the sun the penumbra is the moons faint outer shadow the outer ring of the main shadow during a total solar eclipse the moon appears to cover all of the sun for observers located in the moons umbra shadow those viewing the eclipse from the moons penumbra shadow see the moon cover only a portion of the sun fridays eclipse allowed stargazers a glimpse of the suns corona the atmosphere of superheated gases around the sun the area is usually impossible to see because of the bright light of the sun but is visible during a total eclipse as the suns light is obscured total solar eclipses usually take place once every 18 months and always at new moon when the lunar body sits directly between the sun and the earth however they do not happen every new moon rahu ketu tale mythology tells the tale of the samudra manthana when the divine churning of the milky ocean brought forth the elixir of life cleverly disguised as the beautiful mohini lord vishnu gave the ambrosia to the devathas and not to the demons two demons who slipped in and tried to feast on the ambrosia were caught with the help of the sun and the moon and every once in a while rahu and ketu take revenge on the sun and the moon by devouring them scientists call it the result of the natural movement of the bodies of