Eclipse Dates
Solar and lunar eclipses of 2256, 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, 10 April 2256
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 19:33 to 22:20, greatest at 20:57 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 19:33 to 23:41, greatest at 20:57
- Magnitude
- 0.561
- Sutak begins
- 10 Apr, 10:33
Solar eclipse, 26 April 2256
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aries, Ashwini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 02:04 to 06:45, greatest at 04:24 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 03:12 to 05:37
Lunar eclipse, 05 October 2256
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:56 to 11:49, greatest at 10:23 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
Solar eclipse, 19 October 2256
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:25 to 12:42, greatest at 10:03 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 36% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 07:35 to 09:46, greatest at 08:36
- Magnitude
- 0.362
- Sutak begins
- 18 Oct, 19:35
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 08:40 to 11:26
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.