Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1997, 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 1997
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Virgo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:27 to 11:50, greatest at 10:09 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
Lunar eclipse, 17 September 1997
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:38, 16 Sep to 01:54, greatest at 00:16 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 21:42, 16 Sep to 02:50, greatest at 00:16
- Magnitude
- 1.192
- Sutak begins
- 16 Sep, 13:38
- Totality
- 23:45, 16 Sep to 00:47
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.