Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1986, 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, 09 April 1986
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 09:40 to 14:01, greatest at 11:50 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
Lunar eclipse, 24 April 1986
- Type
- Total
- In
- Libra, Swati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 16:33 to 19:52, greatest at 18:12 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 19:52 to 20:48, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.203
- Sutak begins
- 24 Apr, 07:33
- Totality
- 17:40 to 18:44
Solar eclipse, 04 October 1986
- Type
- Hybrid
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:27, 03 Oct to 02:43, greatest at 00:35 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 00:26 to 00:44
Lunar eclipse, 18 October 1986
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aries, Ashwini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:59, 17 Oct to 02:36, greatest at 00:47 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 21:51, 17 Oct to 03:44, greatest at 00:47
- Magnitude
- 1.245
- Sutak begins
- 17 Oct, 13:59
- Totality
- 00:11 to 01:24
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.