Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 2008, 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, 07 February 2008
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Capricorn, Dhanishta nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 07:08 to 11:41, greatest at 09:25 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 08:49 to 10:00
Solar eclipse, 01 August 2008
- Type
- Total
- In
- Cancer, Pushya nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 13:34 to 18:08, greatest at 15:51 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 62% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 16:03 to 17:56, greatest at 17:02
- Magnitude
- 0.623
- Sutak begins
- 01 Aug, 04:03
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 14:51 to 16:51
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.