Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1868, 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, 23 February 1868
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Aquarius, Shatabhisha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 17:10 to 23:18, greatest at 20:14 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 18:14 to 22:14
Solar eclipse, 18 August 1868
- Type
- Total
- In
- Leo, Magha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:28 to 13:42, greatest at 11:05 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 63% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 08:51 to 11:11, greatest at 09:57
- Magnitude
- 0.627
- Sutak begins
- 17 Aug, 20:51
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 09:21 to 12:49
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.