Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1945

Saturday 27 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 251 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two moonrises

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The moonrise is read as disc centre, 31′.

Moonrise of Saturday 27 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

22:51 moonrise
21:3922:0322:2722:5123:1523:3900:03

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Sunday 28 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

23:54 moonrise
22:4223:0623:3023:5400:1800:4201:06

Absent at moonrise

Aṣṭamī presentMoonrise, the instant the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 18:40 on Sat 27 Oct to 18:31 on Sun 28 Oct.

    1945-10-27T10:39:32Z → 1945-10-28T10:30:50Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:51 on the 27th and 23:54 on the 28th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 27th and is not on the 28th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one moonrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 15089 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1945: Saturday 27 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1945 falls on Saturday 27 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:40 on Sat 27 Oct to 18:31 on Sun 28 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1945/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 27 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 27 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 27 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/ahoyi-ashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Moonrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 8 Ahoyi astami (Gujerat) (current at moonrise), Karastami (Maharashtra). If occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMoonrise 27thCoveredMoonrise 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:40 → 02:3123:19holds00:19no27 Oct
Chicago04:40 → 04:3122:50holds23:54no27 Oct
Jersey City05:40 → 05:3122:57holds00:01no27 Oct
Port of Spain06:40 → 06:3100:08holds01:02no27 Oct
London10:40 → 10:3122:07holds23:17no27 Oct
Durban12:40 → 12:3100:57holds01:41no27 Oct
Dubai14:40 → 14:3123:36holds00:34no27 Oct
Delhi16:10 → 16:0123:27holds00:26no27 Oct
Kolkata16:10 → 16:0122:53holds23:51no27 Oct
Singapore18:10 → 18:0100:27holds01:20no27 Oct
Sydney20:40 → 20:3100:51holds01:35no27 Oct
Suva22:40 → 22:3100:23holds01:12no27 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ahoyi-ashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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