Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1774, 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.
Solar eclipse, 12 March 1774
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Pisces, Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 13:05 to 18:51, greatest at 15:58 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 65% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 16:36 to 18:46, greatest at 17:45
- Magnitude
- 0.655
- Sutak begins
- 12 Mar, 04:36
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 14:06 to 17:50
Solar eclipse, 06 September 1774
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Leo, Purva Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 04:54 to 10:46, greatest at 07:50 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 47% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 05:08 to 07:01, greatest at 06:26
- Magnitude
- 0.469
- Sutak begins
- 05 Sep, 17:08
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 05:56 to 09:45
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.