Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1959, 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, 25 March 1959
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 00:46 to 02:36, greatest at 01:41 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 23:27, 24 Mar to 03:55, greatest at 01:41
- Magnitude
- 0.265
- Sutak begins
- 24 Mar, 15:46
Lunar eclipse, 17 September 1959
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Pisces, Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 04:18 to 08:47, greatest at 06:33 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
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.