Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1696, 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, 17 May 1696
- Type
- Total
- In
- Scorpio, Anuradha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 03:59 to 07:43, greatest at 05:51 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 02:58 to 05:51, greatest at 05:51
- Magnitude
- 1.781
- Sutak begins
- 16 May, 18:59
- Totality
- 05:00 to 06:42
Lunar eclipse, 09 November 1696
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aries, Krittika nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:35 to 12:11, greatest at 10:23 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 09:33 to 11:13
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.