Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 2003, 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, 16 May 2003
- Type
- Total
- In
- Scorpio, Vishakha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:33 to 10:47, greatest at 09:10 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 08:44 to 09:35
Solar eclipse, 31 May 2003
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Taurus, Rohini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:16 to 11:59, greatest at 09:38 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 6% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 07:36 to 08:30, greatest at 08:02
- Magnitude
- 0.064
- Sutak begins
- 30 May, 19:36
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 09:15 to 10:00
Lunar eclipse, 09 November 2003
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aries, Bharani nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:02 to 08:34, greatest at 06:48 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 03:46 to 05:02, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.017
- Sutak begins
- 08 Nov, 20:02
- Totality
- 06:37 to 06:59
Solar eclipse, 24 November 2003
- Type
- Total
- In
- Scorpio, Anuradha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 02:16 to 06:22, greatest at 04:19 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 03:49 to 04:49
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.