Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1959, 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 1959
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Pisces, Revati nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:57 to 11:50, greatest at 08:53 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 07:06 to 10:41
Solar eclipse, 02 October 1959
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Hasta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:19 to 20:33, greatest at 17:56 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 16:19 to 19:33
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.