Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1968, 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, 29 March 1968
- Type
- Partial
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 02:13 to 06:46, greatest at 04:29 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
Solar eclipse, 22 September 1968
- Type
- Total
- In
- Virgo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 14:37 to 18:59, greatest at 16:48 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 81% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 16:42 to 18:42, greatest at 17:45
- Magnitude
- 0.809
- Sutak begins
- 22 Sep, 04:42
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 16:13 to 17:23
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.