Panchang in Olean, New York, United States Sun 30 Jul 2023

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 01:04 on Sun 30 Jul to 21:57 on Sun 30 Jul, so it touches only Sunday’s pradosha (20:34–22:29). No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Olean

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 144°–156° is the 13th, Shukla Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:04 here. Dwadashi ended at 01:04, before it. Trayodashi ends at 21:57, when the lead reaches 156°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Jul, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:41, came before Dwadashi ended at 10:34: this day reads Dwadashi.

Olean · UTC−4

Sunrise here, 06:04, came after Dwadashi ended at 01:04: this day reads Trayodashi.

The night of Sat 29 Jul ran from sunset 20:35 Sat to sunrise 06:04, 9 h 29 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:04 to 20:34, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:34 to 06:05 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 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′. Mula spans 240°00′–253°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 246°40′. It leaves at 12:02, for Purva Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 102.8° + 249.7° = 352.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 17:31, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Trayodashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 11:35, when the lead reaches 150°; Taitila until 21:57.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:04 to 06:05 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Jul 14:31 Mon to 16 Aug 05:38 Wed the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 17 Aug 04:02 Thu, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana itself.

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 17 Jul, with the Sun in Karka, began Shravana (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 2023, 13:23 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 126.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.