Panchang in Olean, New York, United States Mon 22 May 2028

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 04:32 on Mon 22 May to 04:40 on Tue 23 May, so only Monday night’s nishitha (00:51 Tue–01:28 Tue) falls within it. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Olean

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:46 here. Trayodashi ended at 04:32, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 04:40 Tue, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 8 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:26, came before Trayodashi ended at 14:02: this day reads Trayodashi.

Olean · UTC−4

Sunrise here, 05:46, came after Trayodashi ended at 04:32: this day reads Chaturdashi.

The night of Sun 21 May ran from sunset 20:34 Sun to sunrise 05:46, 9 h 12 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:46 to 20:35, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 51 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:35 to 05:45 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 8 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 1 at 13°20′. It leaves at 05:00 Tue, for Krittika.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 37.6° + 14.2° = 51.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 40°00′–53°20′ is the 4th, Saubhagya. It ends at 08:32, then Shobhana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti runs until 16:40, when the lead reaches 342°; Shakuni until 04:40 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:46 to 05:45 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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: Mesha gives Vaishakha. The Sun enters Vrishabha on 14 May, inside the month. The next new moon, 24 May, finds it in Vrishabha and begins Jyeshtha.

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 24 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha here, and Vaishakha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 2028, 00:31 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 55.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2085; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1950.