Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1981, 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, 05 February 1981
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Capricorn, Shravana nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 00:58 to 06:19, greatest at 03:38 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 02:02 to 05:14
Solar eclipse, 31 July 1981
- Type
- Total
- In
- Cancer, Pushya nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 06:41 to 11:50, greatest at 09:15 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 36% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 06:45 to 08:29, greatest at 07:34
- Magnitude
- 0.357
- Sutak begins
- 30 Jul, 18:45
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 07:47 to 10:44
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.