Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1961, 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, 15 February 1961
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aquarius, Dhanishta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 11:38 to 15:59, greatest at 13:49 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 26% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 13:49 to 15:36, greatest at 14:45
- Magnitude
- 0.263
- Sutak begins
- 15 Feb, 01:49
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 12:59 to 14:38
Solar eclipse, 11 August 1961
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Cancer, Ashlesha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 13:43 to 18:49, greatest at 16:16 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 15:16 to 17:15
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.