Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1989, 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, 20 February 1989
- Type
- Total
- In
- Leo, Magha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 19:13 to 22:56, greatest at 21:05 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 19:13 to 00:09, 21 Feb, greatest at 21:05
- Magnitude
- 1.274
- Sutak begins
- 20 Feb, 10:13
- Totality
- 20:26 to 21:44
Lunar eclipse, 17 August 1989
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aquarius, Dhanishta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 06:50 to 10:25, greatest at 08:38 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 07:50 to 09:26
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.