Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1857, 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, 26 March 1857
- Type
- Total
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 01:43 to 07:01, greatest at 04:22 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 02:38 to 06:07
Solar eclipse, 18 September 1857
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Virgo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:31 to 14:26, greatest at 11:29 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 89% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 08:47 to 11:47, greatest at 10:13
- Magnitude
- 0.892
- Sutak begins
- 17 Sep, 20:47
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 09:35 to 13:23
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.