Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1939, 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, 19 April 1939
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Aries, Ashwini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 19:56 to 00:34, 20 Apr, greatest at 22:15 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 21:34 to 22:55
Lunar eclipse, 03 May 1939
- Type
- Total
- In
- Libra, Swati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 18:57 to 22:24, greatest at 20:41 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 18:57 to 23:28, greatest at 20:41
- Magnitude
- 1.176
- Sutak begins
- 03 May, 09:57
- Totality
- 20:10 to 21:12
Solar eclipse, 13 October 1939
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 00:04 to 04:14, greatest at 02:10 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 01:44 to 02:35
Lunar eclipse, 28 October 1939
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Aries, Ashwini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 10:24 to 13:48, greatest at 12:06 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
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.