Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1996, 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, 04 April 1996
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 03:51 to 07:28, greatest at 05:39 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 02:47 to 05:39, greatest at 05:39
- Magnitude
- 1.379
- Sutak begins
- 03 Apr, 18:51
- Totality
- 04:56 to 06:22
Lunar eclipse, 27 September 1996
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 06:42 to 10:06, greatest at 08:24 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 05:43 to 05:43, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.240
- Sutak begins
- 26 Sep, 21:42
- Totality
- 07:49 to 08:58
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.