Panchang in Diffa, Niger Fri 24 Feb 2034

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 60°–72° is the 6th, Shukla Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:28 here. Panchami ended at 11:01 Thu, before it. Shashthi ends at 08:38, when the lead reaches 72°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 19 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Thu 23 Feb ran from sunset 18:17 Thu to sunrise 06:28, 12 h 11 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:28 to 18:17, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:17 to 06:27 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 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′. Bharani spans 13°20′–26°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 20°. It leaves at 14:06, for Krittika.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 311.3° + 22.1° = 333.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 03:18 Sat, then Vaidhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava ended at 21:48 Thu, when the lead reached 66°; Taitila runs until 08:38.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:28 to 06:27 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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 20 Mar, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 19 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 30 Mar 2033, 18:51 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 325.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2090; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1955.