Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1944, 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, 25 January 1944
- Type
- Total
- In
- Capricorn, Shravana nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 19:18 to 00:34, 26 Jan, greatest at 21:56 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 20:14 to 23:38
Solar eclipse, 20 July 1944
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Cancer, Pushya nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 09:12 to 15:13, greatest at 12:12 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 69% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 09:48 to 13:01, greatest at 11:18
- Magnitude
- 0.686
- Sutak begins
- 19 Jul, 21:48
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 10:15 to 14:09
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.