Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1976, 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 April 1976
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Aries, Bharani nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 12:52 to 18:54, greatest at 15:53 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 78% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 16:28 to 18:53, greatest at 17:46
- Magnitude
- 0.776
- Sutak begins
- 29 Apr, 04:28
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 13:59 to 17:47
Solar eclipse, 23 October 1976
- Type
- Total
- In
- Libra, Chitra nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 08:08 to 13:17, greatest at 10:42 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 09:04 to 12:21
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.