Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1670, 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, 05 April 1670
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:52 to 18:56, greatest at 17:24 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 20:16 to 20:16, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 0.696
- Sutak begins
- 05 Apr, 06:52
Lunar eclipse, 29 September 1670
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 06:53 to 09:42, greatest at 08:17 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 05:51 to 05:51, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 0.758
- Sutak begins
- 28 Sep, 21:53
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.