Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1838, 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, 26 March 1838
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 01:27 to 06:04, greatest at 03:45 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 02:36 to 04:55
Lunar eclipse, 10 April 1838
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 06:25 to 09:19, greatest at 07:52 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 05:04 to 06:25, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 0.607
- Sutak begins
- 09 Apr, 21:25
Solar eclipse, 19 September 1838
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Virgo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 00:16 to 05:23, greatest at 02:49 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 01:49 to 03:49
Lunar eclipse, 03 October 1838
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 19:03 to 22:05, greatest at 20:34 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 19:03 to 23:04, greatest at 20:34
- Magnitude
- 0.930
- Sutak begins
- 03 Oct, 10:03
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.