Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1971, 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, 10 February 1971
- Type
- Total
- In
- Cancer, Ashlesha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 11:22 to 15:07, greatest at 13:14 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 12:33 to 13:55
Lunar eclipse, 07 August 1971
- Type
- Total
- In
- Capricorn, Shravana nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 23:25, 06 Aug to 03:00, greatest at 01:13 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 22:29, 06 Aug to 03:56, greatest at 01:13
- Magnitude
- 1.729
- Sutak begins
- 06 Aug, 14:25
- Totality
- 00:23 to 02:02
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.