Eclipses

There was an eclipse on the first day of Chinese New Year. A brief one! So brief that I didn't even see it at all. Some people say yes it did occur but didn't seem to, to me. Not in total darkness.

So my hunt for research on eclipse. How frequent it is? I seem to be having amnesia and it seems that eclipses seems to me that it is occuring more frequent then it used to. I used to understand the eclipse only turns up once in a blue moon. So what is the answer?

From http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top10_lunar_eclipse_facts.html quote:
Though you might not have logged many lunar eclipses in your life, they are common compared to solar eclipses, at least in one sense. Solar eclipses are fairly numerous, generally two to five per year, but the area on the ground covered by totality is only a few tens of miles (kilometers) wide, so it's rare to be in the path of a total solar eclipse. In any given location on Earth, a total solar eclipse happens only once every 360 years. Lunar eclipses are less frequent, but total lunar eclipses are visible everywhere that it is nighttime as the event takes place—essentially half the globe. Any given location can experience up to three lunar eclipses per year, as last happened in 1982. Some years there are none, as in both 2005 and 2006.

Still the history of occurences in eclipses

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhistory/SEhistory.html#1973

Ok.. I wasn't wrong, there was an eclipse in . According to NASA, year 2007 and year 2008 eclipse appeared below

2007 Mar 03: Total Lunar Eclipse
2007 Mar 19: Partial Solar Eclipse
2007 Aug 28: Total Lunar Eclipse
2007 Sep 11: Partial Solar Eclipse


2008 Feb 07: Annular Solar Eclipse
2008 Feb 21: Total Lunar Eclipse
2008 Aug 01: Total Solar Eclipse
2008 Aug 16: Partial Lunar Eclipse

And 2009 expected eclipse is below. Watch for it ... not directly... Hhahaha

2009 Jan 26: Annular Solar Eclipse
2009 Feb 09: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
2009 Jul 07: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
2009 Jul 22: Total Solar Eclipse
2009 Aug 06: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
2009 Dec 31: Partial Lunar Eclipse

Read more about it http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2009.html

Begginer's knowledge about eclipses http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/SEprimer.html