Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1856, 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, 05 April 1856
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 09:38 to 14:10, greatest at 11:54 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 10:49 to 12:59
Lunar eclipse, 20 April 1856
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Libra, Swati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 13:27 to 16:32, greatest at 14:59 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
Solar eclipse, 29 September 1856
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:24 to 12:22, greatest at 09:52 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 09:06 to 10:39
Lunar eclipse, 14 October 1856
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 03:14 to 06:20, greatest at 04:47 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 02:16 to 06:20, greatest at 04:47
- Magnitude
- 0.997
- Sutak begins
- 13 Oct, 18:14
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.