Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1980, 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, 16 February 1980
- Type
- Total
- In
- Aquarius, Dhanishta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 11:45 to 17:01, greatest at 14:23 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 65% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 14:36 to 16:51, greatest at 15:47
- Magnitude
- 0.651
- Sutak begins
- 16 Feb, 02:36
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 12:41 to 16:04
Solar eclipse, 11 August 1980
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Cancer, Ashlesha nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 21:43, 10 Aug to 03:39, greatest at 00:41 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 22:47, 10 Aug to 02:35
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.