Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 1991, 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 1991
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Capricorn, Uttara Ashadha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 02:21 to 08:24, greatest at 05:22 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 03:26 to 07:19
Lunar eclipse, 30 January 1991
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Cancer, Pushya nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 09:29 to 13:27, greatest at 11:28 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Lunar eclipse, 27 June 1991
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Sagittarius, Mula nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:19 to 10:09, greatest at 08:44 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Solar eclipse, 12 July 1991
- Type
- Total
- In
- Gemini, Punarvasu nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 21:58, 11 Jul to 03:13, greatest at 00:36 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 22:51, 11 Jul to 02:20
Lunar eclipse, 26 July 1991
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Capricorn, Uttara Ashadha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:21 to 00:54, 27 Jul, greatest at 23:37 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Lunar eclipse, 21 December 1991
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Gemini, Mrigashira nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:31 to 16:35, greatest at 16:03 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 18:08 to 18:08, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 0.088
- Sutak begins
- 21 Dec, 06:31
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.