Panchang in Myshkin, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia Wed 24 Jan 2029

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 96°–108° is the 9th, Shukla Navami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:43 here. Ashtami ended at 11:27 Tue, before it. Navami ends at 13:13, when the lead reaches 108°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 Jan, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 23 Jan ran from sunset 16:30 Tue to sunrise 08:43, 16 h 13 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 1 h 4 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:43 to 16:32, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 58 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 16:32 to 08:42 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 2 h 1 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 4 at 23°20′. It leaves at 09:45, for Krittika.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 280.3° + 26.1° = 306.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 09:12, then Shukla.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Navami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 00:24, when the lead reached 102°; Kaulava runs until 13:13.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:43 to 08:42 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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 12 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 13 Feb, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 14 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, began Magha. This Shukla paksha reads Magha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 2028, 07:31 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 298.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2085; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1950.