Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1879, 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, 22 January 1879
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Capricorn, Uttara Ashadha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 14:21 to 20:07, greatest at 17:14 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 15:22 to 19:05
Solar eclipse, 19 July 1879
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Cancer, Pushya nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 11:32 to 17:19, greatest at 14:25 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 3% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 14:47 to 15:26, greatest at 15:07
- Magnitude
- 0.027
- Sutak begins
- 19 Jul, 02:47
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 12:33 to 16:17
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.