Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 1987, 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 1987
- Type
- Hybrid
- In
- Pisces, Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 15:32 to 21:05, greatest at 18:18 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 16:34 to 20:03
Solar eclipse, 23 September 1987
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Virgo, Uttara Phalguni nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:45 to 11:37, greatest at 08:41 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 48% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 05:51 to 07:51, greatest at 06:48
- Magnitude
- 0.476
- Sutak begins
- 22 Sep, 17:51
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 06:49 to 10:33
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.