Panchang in Diffa, Niger Wed 1 Aug 2018

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 228°–240° is the 20th, Krishna Panchami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:54 here. Chaturthi ended at 05:53, before it. Panchami ends at 07:03 Thu, when the lead reaches 240°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 27 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Panchami began at 05:53, before sunrise at 05:54, and ends at 07:03 Thu, after the next sunrise at 05:54 Thu. Both days read Panchami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:42, came before Chaturthi ended at 10:23: this day reads Chaturthi.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 05:54, came after Chaturthi ended at 05:53: this day reads Panchami.

The night of Tue 31 Jul ran from sunset 18:37 Tue to sunrise 05:54, 11 h 17 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:54 to 18:37, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:37 to 05:54 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 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′. Purva Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 330°. It leaves at 06:55, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 104.8° + 332.8° = 437.6°, one full turn and 77.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 10:14, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Panchami is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 18:32, when the lead reaches 234°; Taitila until 07:03 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:54 to 05:54 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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, 11 Aug, 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 11 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana here, and Ashadha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2018, 14:11 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 132° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.