Panchang in Olean, New York, United States Tue 23 Jul 2024

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 22:00 on Tue 23 Jul to 19:10 on Wed 24 Jul, so it holds moonrise only on Tue 23 Jul, at 22:28. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Olean

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:58 here. Dwitiya ended at 00:53, before it. Tritiya ends at 22:00, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 21 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:37, came before Dwitiya ended at 10:23: this day reads Dwitiya.

Olean · UTC−4

Sunrise here, 05:58, came after Dwitiya ended at 00:53: this day reads Tritiya.

The night of Mon 22 Jul ran from sunset 20:42 Mon to sunrise 05:58, 9 h 16 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:58 to 20:41, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 50 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:41 to 05:59 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 9 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′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 303°20′. It leaves at 10:48, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 96.8° + 303.7° = 400.5°, one full turn and 40.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 40°00′–53°20′ is the 4th, Saubhagya. It ends at 01:40 Wed, then Shobhana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija runs until 11:27, when the lead reaches 210°; Vishti until 22:00.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:58 to 05:59 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 4 Aug, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 4 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana here, and Ashadha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 2024, 14:20 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 101.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.