Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1798, and whether they can be seen from New Delhi, Delhi, India. Sutak is kept only where the eclipse is visible: twelve hours before a solar eclipse and nine before a lunar one.
Solar eclipse, 16 May 1798
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Taurus, Krittika nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 23:40, 15 May to 04:27, greatest at 02:03 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 01:08 to 02:59
Lunar eclipse, 30 May 1798
- Type
- Total
- In
- Scorpio, Jyeshtha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:18, 29 May to 01:42, greatest at 00:00 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 21:15, 29 May to 02:46, greatest at 00:00
- Magnitude
- 1.099
- Sutak begins
- 29 May, 13:18
- Totality
- 23:36, 29 May to 00:24
Solar eclipse, 08 November 1798
- Type
- Total
- In
- Libra, Vishakha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:21 to 09:54, greatest at 07:37 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 06:38 to 08:37
Lunar eclipse, 23 November 1798
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Taurus, Rohini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 16:51 to 19:45, greatest at 18:18 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 18:18 to 21:03, greatest at 18:18
- Magnitude
- 0.647
- Sutak begins
- 23 Nov, 07:51
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.