Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1938, 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, 14 May 1938
- Type
- Total
- In
- Libra, Vishakha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 12:27 to 16:00, greatest at 14:13 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 13:48 to 14:38
Lunar eclipse, 08 November 1938
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aries, Bharani nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 02:11 to 05:41, greatest at 03:56 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 01:10 to 06:42, greatest at 03:56
- Magnitude
- 1.352
- Sutak begins
- 07 Nov, 17:11
- Totality
- 03:15 to 04:37
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.