Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1968, 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, 29 March 1968
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 02:13 to 06:46, greatest at 04:29 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
Lunar eclipse, 13 April 1968
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:40 to 11:54, greatest at 10:17 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 09:53 to 10:41
Solar eclipse, 22 September 1968
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 14:37 to 18:59, greatest at 16:48 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 81% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 16:42 to 18:42, greatest at 17:45
- Magnitude
- 0.809
- Sutak begins
- 22 Sep, 04:42
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 16:13 to 17:23
Lunar eclipse, 06 October 1968
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:24 to 18:58, greatest at 17:11 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 18:58 to 20:08, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.169
- Sutak begins
- 06 Oct, 06:24
- Totality
- 16:40 to 17:43
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.