Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1798, 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, 16 May 1798
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Taurus, Krittika nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 23:40, 15 May to 04:27, greatest at 02:03 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 01:08 to 02:59
Solar eclipse, 08 November 1798
- Type
- Total
- In
- Libra, Vishakha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:21 to 09:54, greatest at 07:37 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 06:38 to 08:37
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.