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Thursday, 24 October 1996

What matters on this day

Ashwin Shukla Paksha until 11:12 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise6:31 AM

Sunset5:38 PM

Nakshatra until 4:06 AM, Oct 25

Avoid 1:28 PM – 2:52 PM

Auspicious 11:42 AM – 12:27 PM

Pradosh VratPradosh The twice-monthly Shiva observance, kept in the ninety minutes around sunset with abhisheka and the Pradosha stotra. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

1:28 PM – 2:52 PM

6:31 AM – 7:54 AM

9:18 AM – 10:41 AM

12:27 PM – 1:56 PM, 4:09 PM – 5:38 PM

These are periods traditionally avoided for starting something. They do not move a festival — an observance fixed by its own rule stays where the rule puts it. More →

Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise4:18 PM

Moonset3:53 AM

Vyaghata until 2:01 AM, Oct 25

Kaulava

Guruvara

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