Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1881, 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, 28 May 1881
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Taurus, Rohini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 03:06 to 07:12, greatest at 05:09 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
Lunar eclipse, 12 June 1881
- Type
- Total
- In
- Scorpio, Jyeshtha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 10:32 to 13:57, greatest at 12:14 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 11:34 to 12:54
Solar eclipse, 21 November 1881
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Scorpio, Anuradha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 19:34 to 00:10, 22 Nov, greatest at 21:52 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 21:02 to 22:41
Lunar eclipse, 05 December 1881
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Taurus, Rohini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 20:48 to 00:10, 06 Dec, greatest at 22:29 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 19:37 to 01:21, 06 Dec, greatest at 22:29
- Magnitude
- 0.975
- Sutak begins
- 05 Dec, 11:48
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.