Panchang in Diffa, Niger Sat 29 Jan 2033

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 04:56 on Sat 29 Jan to 02:10 on Sun 30 Jan, so only Saturday night’s nishitha (23:57–00:47 Sun) falls within it. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Diffa

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:36 here. Trayodashi ended at 04:56, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 02:10 Sun, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:10, came before Trayodashi ended at 09:26: this day reads Trayodashi. Chaturdashi ends at 06:40 Sun, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Chaturdashi: it is kshaya.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 06:36, came after Trayodashi ended at 04:56: this day reads Chaturdashi.

The night of Fri 28 Jan ran from sunset 18:08 Fri to sunrise 06:36, 12 h 28 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:36 to 18:09, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:09 to 06:36 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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 Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 260°. It leaves at 13:56, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 285.3° + 262.2° = 547.5°, one full turn and 187.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 01:47 Sun, then Siddhi.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti runs until 15:37, when the lead reaches 342°; Shakuni until 02:10 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:36 to 06:36 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 30 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 30 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 10 Apr 2032, 03:39 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 288.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2089; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1954.