Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1906, 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, 09 February 1906
- Type
- Total
- In
- Cancer, Ashlesha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 11:27 to 15:06, greatest at 13:16 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 12:27 to 14:05
Lunar eclipse, 04 August 1906
- Type
- Total
- In
- Capricorn, Shravana nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 16:40 to 20:19, greatest at 18:30 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 20:19 to 21:17, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.780
- Sutak begins
- 04 Aug, 07:40
- Totality
- 17:39 to 19:20
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.