Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1977, 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, 04 April 1977
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 09:00 to 10:35, greatest at 09:48 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
Solar eclipse, 18 April 1977
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Aries, Ashwini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 13:02 to 18:58, greatest at 16:00 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 14:10 to 17:51
Lunar eclipse, 27 September 1977
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 11:50 to 16:08, greatest at 13:59 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Solar eclipse, 13 October 1977
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 23:17, 12 Oct to 04:35, greatest at 01:56 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 00:18 to 03:35
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.