Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1972, 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, 16 January 1972
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Capricorn, Uttara Ashadha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 14:15 to 18:50, greatest at 16:32 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 15:51 to 17:13
Lunar eclipse, 30 January 1972
- Type
- Total
- In
- Cancer, Pushya nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 14:41 to 18:05, greatest at 16:23 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 18:05 to 19:13, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.050
- Sutak begins
- 30 Jan, 05:41
- Totality
- 16:05 to 16:40
Solar eclipse, 11 July 1972
- Type
- Total
- In
- Gemini, Punarvasu nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:49, 10 Jul to 03:42, greatest at 01:15 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 23:57, 10 Jul to 02:34
Lunar eclipse, 26 July 1972
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Capricorn, Uttara Ashadha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 11:25 to 14:05, greatest at 12:45 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
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.