Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 2006, 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, 15 March 2006
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Virgo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 02:53 to 07:41, greatest at 05:17 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Lunar eclipse, 08 September 2006
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Aquarius, Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 23:35, 07 Sep to 01:06, greatest at 00:21 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 22:14, 07 Sep to 02:28, greatest at 00:21
- Magnitude
- 0.184
- Sutak begins
- 07 Sep, 14:35
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.