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Thursday, 17 December 2009
What matters on this day
Pausha Shukla Paksha until 7:24 PM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise7:11 AM
Sunset5:22 PM
Nakshatra
until 6:33 PM
Avoid
1:33 PM – 2:50 PM
Auspicious
11:56 AM – 12:37 PM
No festival or vrat falls today for your region.
That is a real answer, not a gap — most days of the year are ordinary days,
and a calendar that always has something to sell you is not a calendar.
Coming up
- Chandra Darshan tomorrow Fri, 18 Dec
- Shukla Shashti in 5 days Tue, 22 Dec
- Shukla Shashti in 6 days Wed, 23 Dec
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
1:33 PM – 2:50 PM
7:11 AM – 8:28 AM
9:44 AM – 11:00 AM
12:37 PM – 1:59 PM, 4:01 PM – 5:22 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
Moonrise7:40 AM
Moonset6:13 PM
Ganda until 3:23 PM
Bava
Guruvara
Your observances
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