Panchang in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Sat 28 Aug 1976

Ganesha’s puja is done at madhyahna, the middle fifth of the day. Chaturthi runs from 03:37 on Sat 28 Aug to 00:46 on Sun 29 Aug, so only Saturday’s madhyahna (10:28–13:12) falls within it.

Ganesh Chaturthi: every date in Myjava

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 36°–48° is the 4th, Shukla Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:00 here. Tritiya ended at 03:37, before it. Chaturthi ends at 00:46 Sun, when the lead reaches 48°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 25 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:57, came before Tritiya ended at 08:07: this day reads Tritiya. Chaturthi ends at 05:16 Sun, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Chaturthi: it is kshaya.

Myjava · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 05:00, came after Tritiya ended at 03:37: this day reads Chaturthi.

The night of Fri 27 Aug ran from sunset 18:41 Fri to sunrise 05:00, 10 h 19 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 41 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:00 to 18:39, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 42 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:39 to 05:02 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 17 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 13:23, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 131.4° + 168.2° = 299.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 15:47, then Shukla.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija runs until 14:10, when the lead reaches 42°; Vishti until 00:46 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:00 to 05:02 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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 16 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 23 Sep, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 25 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 30 Mar 1976, 18:07 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 144.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2033; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1898.