Panchang in Midleton, Munster, Ireland Thu 19 Jan 2023

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 07:48 on Thu 19 Jan to 04:30 on Fri 20 Jan, so only Thursday’s pradosha (16:57–20:03) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Midleton

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 324°–336° is the 28th, Krishna Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:29 here. Dwadashi ended at 07:48, before it. Trayodashi ends at 04:30 Fri, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 6 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:14, came before Dwadashi ended at 13:18: this day reads Dwadashi.

Midleton · UTC

Sunrise here, 08:29, came after Dwadashi ended at 07:48: this day reads Trayodashi.

The night of Wed 18 Jan ran from sunset 16:55 Wed to sunrise 08:29, 15 h 34 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 1 h 2 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:29 to 16:57, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 3 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 16:57 to 08:28 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 56 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 236°40′. It leaves at 09:47, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 274.8° + 239.2° = 514°, one full turn and 154°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 146°40′–160°00′ is the 12th, Dhruva. It ends at 17:33, then Vyaghata.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Trayodashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 18:13, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 04:30 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:29 to 08:28 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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, 21 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 21 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: 1 Apr 2022, 07:24 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 287.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2079; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1944.