Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1978, 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, 24 March 1978
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 20:03 to 23:41, greatest at 21:52 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 18:59 to 00:44, 25 Mar, greatest at 21:52
- Magnitude
- 1.452
- Sutak begins
- 24 Mar, 11:03
- Totality
- 21:07 to 22:37
Lunar eclipse, 17 September 1978
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:50, 16 Sep to 02:17, greatest at 00:34 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 21:52, 16 Sep to 03:16, greatest at 00:34
- Magnitude
- 1.327
- Sutak begins
- 16 Sep, 13:50
- Totality
- 23:54, 16 Sep to 01:13
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.