Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1947, 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, 20 May 1947
- Type
- Total
- In
- Taurus, Krittika nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 16:40 to 21:53, greatest at 19:17 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 17:38 to 20:56
Lunar eclipse, 04 June 1947
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Scorpio, Jyeshtha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 00:27 to 01:02, greatest at 00:45 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 22:20, 03 Jun to 03:09, greatest at 00:45
- Magnitude
- 0.020
- Sutak begins
- 03 Jun, 15:27
Solar eclipse, 13 November 1947
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Libra, Vishakha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:44, 12 Nov to 04:26, greatest at 01:35 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 23:48, 12 Nov to 03:21
Lunar eclipse, 28 November 1947
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Taurus, Rohini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 12:04 to 16:03, greatest at 14:04 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
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.