Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1949, 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, 13 April 1949
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:58 to 11:23, greatest at 09:40 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 08:58 to 10:23
Lunar eclipse, 07 October 1949
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 06:35 to 10:17, greatest at 08:26 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 05:21 to 05:21, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.223
- Sutak begins
- 06 Oct, 21:35
- Totality
- 07:50 to 09:02
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.