Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1938, 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.
Lunar eclipse, 14 May 1938
- Type
- Total
- In
- Libra, Vishakha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 12:27 to 16:00, greatest at 14:13 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 13:48 to 14:38
Solar eclipse, 29 May 1938
- Type
- Total
- In
- Taurus, Rohini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 17:16 to 21:23, greatest at 19:19 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 18:47 to 19:52
Lunar eclipse, 08 November 1938
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aries, Bharani nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 02:11 to 05:41, greatest at 03:56 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 01:10 to 06:42, greatest at 03:56
- Magnitude
- 1.352
- Sutak begins
- 07 Nov, 17:11
- Totality
- 03:15 to 04:37
Solar eclipse, 22 November 1938
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Scorpio, Anuradha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 03:15 to 07:28, greatest at 05:22 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
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.