Lunar Eclipse
Lunar eclipses (Chandra Grahan) of 2017, 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, 11 February 2017
- Type
- Penumbral
- In
- Cancer, Ashlesha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 04:04 to 08:23, greatest at 06:13 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- A penumbral eclipse: hardly visible, and no Sutak is kept
Lunar eclipse, 07 August 2017
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Capricorn, Shravana nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:52 to 00:48, 08 Aug, greatest at 23:50 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi from beginning to end
- Seen locally
- 21:20 to 02:21, 08 Aug, greatest at 23:50
- Magnitude
- 0.247
- Sutak begins
- 07 Aug, 13:52
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.