Planet Combustion
Periods in 1989 when a planet is so close to the Sun that it is combust (Asta). Marriage and other ceremonies are avoided while Jupiter or Venus is combust.
Combust periods 1989
| Planet | From | To | Days | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | 10 Dec 1988, 01:36 | 12 Jan 1989, 08:37 | 33 | Within 15 degrees of the Sun |
| Mercury | 19 Jan 1989, 08:04 | 30 Jan 1989, 19:16 | 11 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Venus | 24 Feb 1989, 04:17 | 13 May 1989, 13:31 | 78 | Within 10 degrees of the Sun (8 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 20 Mar 1989, 11:25 | 17 Apr 1989, 23:52 | 28 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 15 May 1989, 14:52 | 01 Jun 1989, 12:01 | 16 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Jupiter | 25 May 1989, 11:32 | 24 Jun 1989, 19:22 | 30 | Within 11 degrees of the Sun |
| Mercury | 06 Jul 1989, 05:11 | 01 Aug 1989, 01:02 | 25 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mars | 09 Aug 1989, 07:56 | 20 Nov 1989, 04:36 | 102 | Within 17 degrees of the Sun |
| Mercury | 19 Sep 1989, 01:38 | 01 Oct 1989, 17:23 | 12 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 20 Oct 1989, 13:46 | 06 Dec 1989, 18:26 | 47 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Saturn | 21 Dec 1989, 11:14 | 23 Jan 1990, 18:16 | 33 | Within 15 degrees of the Sun |
Times are local to New Delhi, Delhi, India, worked out with the sidereal (Lahiri) zodiac. Sunrise and sunset are for the upper edge of the Sun with normal refraction.