Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1979

Friday 12 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 342 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 Friday 12 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:02 moonrise
21:5022:1422:3823:0223:2623:5000:14

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Saturday 13 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

23:55 moonrise
22:4323:0723:3123:5500:1900:4301:07

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 16:45 on Fri 12 Oct to 18:13 on Sat 13 Oct.

    1979-10-12T08:44:52Z → 1979-10-13T10:13:25Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 23:02 on the 12th and 23:55 on the 13th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 12th and is not on the 13th.

    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 20491 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1979: Friday 12 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1979 falls on Friday 12 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:45 on Fri 12 Oct to 18:13 on Sat 13 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1979/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 12 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 12 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 12 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 12thCoveredMoonrise 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:45 → 03:1300:21holds01:14no12 Oct
Chicago03:45 → 05:1323:57holds00:52no12 Oct
Jersey City04:45 → 06:1300:03holds00:58no12 Oct
Port of Spain04:45 → 06:1300:03holds00:52no12 Oct
London09:45 → 11:1323:24holds00:21no12 Oct
Durban10:45 → 12:1300:40holds01:25no12 Oct
Dubai12:45 → 14:1323:38holds00:29no12 Oct
Delhi14:15 → 15:4323:31holds00:23no12 Oct
Kolkata14:15 → 15:4322:55holds23:46no12 Oct
Singapore16:15 → 17:4300:22holds01:11no12 Oct
Sydney18:45 → 20:1300:32holds01:17no12 Oct
Suva20:45 → 22:1300:11holds00:59no12 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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