Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 2009, 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, 26 January 2009
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Capricorn, Shravana nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 10:26 to 16:30, greatest at 13:28 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 11:32 to 15:24
Lunar eclipse, 09 February 2009
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Cancer, Ashlesha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 18:08 to 22:07, greatest at 20:08 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Lunar eclipse, 07 July 2009
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Sagittarius, Purva Ashadha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 14:07 to 16:09, greatest at 15:08 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Solar eclipse, 22 July 2009
- Type
- Total
- In
- Cancer, Pushya nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:28 to 10:42, greatest at 08:05 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 85% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 05:33 to 07:24, greatest at 06:26
- Magnitude
- 0.854
- Sutak begins
- 21 Jul, 17:33
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 06:21 to 09:49
Lunar eclipse, 06 August 2009
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Capricorn, Shravana nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 04:34 to 07:44, greatest at 06:09 (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.