Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 2003, 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, 16 May 2003
- Type
- Total
- In
- Scorpio, Vishakha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:33 to 10:47, greatest at 09:10 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi: the Moon is below the horizon
- Totality
- 08:44 to 09:35
Lunar eclipse, 09 November 2003
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aries, Bharani nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:02 to 08:34, greatest at 06:48 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 03:46 to 05:02, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 1.017
- Sutak begins
- 08 Nov, 20:02
- Totality
- 06:37 to 06:59
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.