Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1943, 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 February 1943
- Type
- Total
- In
- Capricorn, Shravana nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 03:56 to 08:18, greatest at 06:07 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 05:16 to 06:59
Lunar eclipse, 20 February 1943
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Leo, Magha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 10:33 to 13:42, greatest at 12:08 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
Solar eclipse, 01 August 1943
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Cancer, Pushya nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:06 to 13:24, greatest at 10:45 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 09:31 to 11:59
Lunar eclipse, 16 August 1943
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Capricorn, Dhanishta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 00:29 to 03:27, greatest at 01:58 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 23:29, 15 Aug to 04:26, greatest at 01:58
- Magnitude
- 0.870
- Sutak begins
- 15 Aug, 15:29
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.