Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1940, 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, 08 April 1940
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:47, 07 Apr to 04:54, greatest at 01:50 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 23:53, 07 Apr to 03:48
Solar eclipse, 01 October 1940
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:38 to 20:48, greatest at 18:13 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 16:33 to 19:54
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.