Panchang in Olean, New York, United States Tue 15 Aug 2023

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 03:13 on Tue 15 Aug to 05:38 on Wed 16 Aug, so it holds sunrise only on Tue 15 Aug, at 06:21. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Olean

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:21 here. Chaturdashi ended at 03:13, before it. Amavasya ends at 05:38 Wed, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:50, came before Chaturdashi ended at 12:43: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Olean · UTC−4

Sunrise here, 06:21, came after Chaturdashi ended at 03:13: this day reads Amavasya.

The night of Mon 14 Aug ran from sunset 20:15 Mon to sunrise 06:21, 10 h 6 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:21 to 20:14, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 44 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:14 to 06:22 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 16 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′. Ashlesha spans 106°40′–120°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 106°40′. It leaves at 07:27 Wed, for Magha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 118.2° + 107.6° = 225.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 08:02, then Variyana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada runs until 16:25, when the lead reaches 354°; Nagava until 05:38 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:21 to 06:22 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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 16 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

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 141.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.