Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1987, 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 1987
- Type
- Hybrid
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:32 to 21:05, greatest at 18:18 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 16:34 to 20:03
Lunar eclipse, 14 April 1987
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:51 to 09:46, greatest at 07:48 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Solar eclipse, 23 September 1987
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Virgo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:45 to 11:37, greatest at 08:41 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 48% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 05:51 to 07:51, greatest at 06:48
- Magnitude
- 0.476
- Sutak begins
- 22 Sep, 17:51
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 06:49 to 10:33
Lunar eclipse, 07 October 1987
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:24 to 11:38, greatest at 09:31 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
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.