Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1979, 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, 26 February 1979
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aquarius, Shatabhisha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 20:15 to 00:32, 27 Feb, greatest at 22:24 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 21:37 to 23:10
Solar eclipse, 22 August 1979
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Leo, Magha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 20:25 to 01:17, 23 Aug, greatest at 22:51 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 22:12 to 23:30
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.