Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 2005, 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 April 2005
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Libra, Swati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 13:22 to 17:27, greatest at 15:24 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Lunar eclipse, 17 October 2005
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Aries, Ashwini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 17:05 to 18:01, greatest at 17:33 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Partly seen from New Delhi (the Moon is below the horizon for part of it)
- Seen locally
- 18:01 to 19:43, after the greatest phase (the Moon rises during the eclipse)
- Magnitude
- 0.063
- Sutak begins
- 17 Oct, 08:05
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.