Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1866, 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, 31 March 1866
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:31 to 12:22, greatest at 10:26 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 09:37 to 11:15
Lunar eclipse, 24 September 1866
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 18:13 to 21:47, greatest at 20:00 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 20:00 to 22:45, greatest at 20:00
- Magnitude
- 1.607
- Sutak begins
- 24 Sep, 09:13
- Totality
- 19:12 to 20:48
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.