Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1715, 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, 18 May 1715
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Scorpio, Anuradha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 16:56 to 19:48, greatest at 18:22 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 19:48 to 21:09, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 0.590
- Sutak begins
- 18 May, 07:56
Lunar eclipse, 11 November 1715
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Aries, Krittika nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:30 to 11:16, greatest at 09:53 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
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.