Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1960, 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 March 1960
- Type
- Total
- In
- Leo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 12:08 to 15:47, greatest at 13:57 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 13:10 to 14:44
Solar eclipse, 27 March 1960
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 10:58 to 14:51, greatest at 12:54 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
Lunar eclipse, 05 September 1960
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aquarius, Shatabhisha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:05 to 18:36, greatest at 16:51 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 18:36 to 19:34, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.424
- Sutak begins
- 05 Sep, 06:05
- Totality
- 16:07 to 17:34
Solar eclipse, 21 September 1960
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Virgo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 02:39 to 06:19, greatest at 04:29 (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.