Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1960, 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 March 1960
- Type
- Total
- In
- Leo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 12:08 to 15:47, greatest at 13:57 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 13:10 to 14:44
Lunar eclipse, 05 September 1960
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aquarius, Shatabhisha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:05 to 18:36, greatest at 16:51 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 18:36 to 19:34, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.424
- Sutak begins
- 05 Sep, 06:05
- Totality
- 16:07 to 17:34
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.