Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1754, 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, 07 April 1754
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 12:14 to 15:47, greatest at 14:01 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 13:11 to 14:50
Lunar eclipse, 01 October 1754
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 13:53 to 17:49, greatest at 15:51 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 19:00 to 19:00, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.726
- Sutak begins
- 01 Oct, 04:53
- Totality
- 14:59 to 16:44
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.