Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1955, 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 June 1955
- Type
- Total
- In
- Gemini, Mrigashira nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:03 to 12:17, greatest at 09:40 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 35% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 07:37 to 09:19, greatest at 08:25
- Magnitude
- 0.349
- Sutak begins
- 19 Jun, 19:37
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 07:56 to 11:23
Solar eclipse, 14 December 1955
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Scorpio, Jyeshtha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 09:31 to 15:32, greatest at 12:31 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 38% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 11:13 to 14:34, greatest at 12:58
- Magnitude
- 0.379
- Sutak begins
- 13 Dec, 23:13
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 10:40 to 14:23
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.