Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1736, 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, 27 March 1736
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 04:12 to 07:45, greatest at 05:59 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 03:17 to 05:59, greatest at 05:59
- Magnitude
- 1.822
- Sutak begins
- 26 Mar, 19:12
- Totality
- 05:09 to 06:48
Lunar eclipse, 20 September 1736
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 06:46 to 10:42, greatest at 08:44 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 05:35 to 05:35, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.808
- Sutak begins
- 19 Sep, 21:46
- Totality
- 07:51 to 09:37
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.