Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1947, 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, 20 May 1947
- Type
- Total
- In
- Taurus, Krittika nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 16:40 to 21:53, greatest at 19:17 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 17:38 to 20:56
Solar eclipse, 13 November 1947
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Libra, Vishakha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 22:44, 12 Nov to 04:26, greatest at 01:35 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 23:48, 12 Nov to 03:21
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.