Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Fri 30 Jun 2028

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 84°–96° is the 8th, Shukla Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:55 here. Saptami ended at 09:16 Thu, before it. Ashtami ends at 07:08, when the lead reaches 96°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 23 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:26, came after Ashtami ended at 04:38: this day reads Navami.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 04:55, came before Ashtami ended at 07:08: this day reads Ashtami.

The night of Thu 29 Jun ran from sunset 19:47 Thu to sunrise 04:55, 9 h 8 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:55 to 19:47, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 51 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:47 to 04:56 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 8 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 166°40′. It leaves at 12:04, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 74.4° + 169.2° = 243.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 20:40, then Shiva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 20:10 Thu, when the lead reached 90°; Bava runs until 07:08.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:55 to 04:56 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 22 Jul, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

A purnimanta month runs from full moon to full moon, so its waning half comes first. It shares its name with the amanta month that its second half falls in: the new moon of 23 Jun, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha. This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 2028, 12:31 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 92.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2085; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1950.