Planet Combustion
Periods in 2013 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 2013
| Planet | From | To | Days | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 24 Dec 2012, 10:56 | 07 Feb 2013, 06:01 | 44 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mars | 31 Jan 2013, 14:44 | 27 Jun 2013, 18:57 | 147 | Within 17 degrees of the Sun |
| Venus | 16 Feb 2013, 14:14 | 06 May 2013, 14:24 | 79 | Within 10 degrees of the Sun (8 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 26 Feb 2013, 01:38 | 10 Mar 2013, 22:43 | 12 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 29 Apr 2013, 03:48 | 24 May 2013, 06:45 | 25 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Jupiter | 04 Jun 2013, 18:30 | 05 Jul 2013, 01:47 | 30 | Within 11 degrees of the Sun |
| Mercury | 02 Jul 2013, 00:41 | 18 Jul 2013, 08:33 | 16 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 11 Aug 2013, 08:44 | 10 Sep 2013, 15:36 | 30 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Saturn | 20 Oct 2013, 16:15 | 23 Nov 2013, 15:01 | 33 | Within 15 degrees of the Sun |
| Mercury | 27 Oct 2013, 11:31 | 07 Nov 2013, 22:39 | 11 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
| Mercury | 03 Dec 2013, 14:41 | 20 Jan 2014, 17:35 | 48 | Within 14 degrees of the Sun (12 when retrograde) |
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.