Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1939, 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, 19 April 1939
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Aries, Ashwini nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 19:56 to 00:34, 20 Apr, greatest at 22:15 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 21:34 to 22:55
Solar eclipse, 13 October 1939
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 00:04 to 04:14, greatest at 02:10 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 01:44 to 02:35
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.