Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 2040, 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, 11 May 2040
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Aries, Bharani nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:25 to 10:58, greatest at 09:11 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
Lunar eclipse, 26 May 2040
- Type
- Total
- In
- Scorpio, Anuradha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:29 to 19:00, greatest at 17:15 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 19:55 to 19:55, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.535
- Sutak begins
- 26 May, 06:29
- Totality
- 16:28 to 18:01
Solar eclipse, 05 November 2040
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Libra, Swati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:38, 04 Nov to 02:37, greatest at 00:37 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
Lunar eclipse, 19 November 2040
- Type
- Total
- In
- Taurus, Krittika nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:43, 18 Nov to 02:23, greatest at 00:33 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 21:36, 18 Nov to 03:30, greatest at 00:33
- Magnitude
- 1.397
- Sutak begins
- 18 Nov, 13:43
- Totality
- 23:49, 18 Nov to 01:17
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.