Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1871, 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, 18 June 1871
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Gemini, Mrigashira nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 04:58 to 10:53, greatest at 07:56 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 06:08 to 09:44
Solar eclipse, 12 December 1871
- Type
- Total
- In
- Scorpio, Jyeshtha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 06:47 to 12:02, greatest at 09:24 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 53% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 06:55 to 08:46, greatest at 07:48
- Magnitude
- 0.525
- Sutak begins
- 11 Dec, 18:55
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 07:42 to 11:06
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.