Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 1999, 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, 31 January 1999
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Cancer, Ashlesha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 19:36 to 23:58, greatest at 21:47 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Lunar eclipse, 28 July 1999
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Capricorn, Shravana nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:52 to 18:15, greatest at 17:03 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 19:39 to 19:39, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 0.397
- Sutak begins
- 28 Jul, 06:52
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.