Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1779, 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, 30 May 1779
- Type
- Total
- In
- Scorpio, Jyeshtha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:53 to 12:36, greatest at 10:45 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 10:04 to 11:26
Lunar eclipse, 24 November 1779
- Type
- Total
- In
- Taurus, Rohini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 23:49, 23 Nov to 03:26, greatest at 01:37 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 22:50, 23 Nov to 04:25, greatest at 01:37
- Magnitude
- 1.717
- Sutak begins
- 23 Nov, 14:49
- Totality
- 00:48 to 02:27
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.