Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1949, 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, 13 April 1949
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:58 to 11:23, greatest at 09:40 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 08:58 to 10:23
Solar eclipse, 28 April 1949
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Aries, Bharani nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 11:21 to 15:14, greatest at 13:18 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
Lunar eclipse, 07 October 1949
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 06:35 to 10:17, greatest at 08:26 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 05:21 to 05:21, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.223
- Sutak begins
- 06 Oct, 21:35
- Totality
- 07:50 to 09:02
Solar eclipse, 22 October 1949
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Libra, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 00:45 to 04:39, greatest at 02:42 (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.