Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1959, 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, 25 March 1959
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 00:46 to 02:36, greatest at 01:41 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 23:27, 24 Mar to 03:55, greatest at 01:41
- Magnitude
- 0.265
- Sutak begins
- 24 Mar, 15:46
Solar eclipse, 08 April 1959
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:57 to 11:50, greatest at 08:53 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 07:06 to 10:41
Lunar eclipse, 17 September 1959
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Pisces, Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 04:18 to 08:47, greatest at 06:33 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Solar eclipse, 02 October 1959
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:19 to 20:33, greatest at 17:56 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 16:19 to 19:33
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.