Solar Eclipse
Solar eclipses (Surya Grahan) of 2009, 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 January 2009
- Type
- Annular
- In
- Capricorn, Shravana nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 10:26 to 16:30, greatest at 13:28 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Not seen from New Delhi
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 11:32 to 15:24
Solar eclipse, 22 July 2009
- Type
- Total
- In
- Cancer, Pushya nakshatra
- Whole eclipse (anywhere on Earth)
- 05:28 to 10:42, greatest at 08:05 (local time)
- From New Delhi
- Seen from New Delhi: 85% of the Sun's diameter covered at the maximum
- Seen locally
- 05:33 to 07:24, greatest at 06:26
- Magnitude
- 0.854
- Sutak begins
- 21 Jul, 17:33
- Totality or annularity (on the central path)
- 06:21 to 09:49
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.