Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) · 2020

Sunday 8 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 595 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 7 November

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:21 moonrise
21:0921:3321:5722:2122:4523:0923:33

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Sunday 8 November

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:26 moonrise
22:1422:3823:0223:2623:5000:1400:38

Holds 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 10:00 on Sun 8 Nov to 09:21 on Mon 9 Nov.

    2020-11-08T01:59:41Z → 2020-11-09T01:21:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:21 on the 7th and 23:26 on the 8th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 7th and is on the 8th.

    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 35722 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 2020: Sunday 8 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) 2020 falls on Sunday 8 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 10:00 on Sun 8 Nov to 09:21 on Mon 9 Nov and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2020/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 8 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 8 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 8 Nov
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 8thCoveredMoonrise 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:00 → 17:2123:55no01:01no7 Nov
Chicago20:00 → 19:2123:30no00:41no7 Nov
Jersey City21:00 → 20:2123:36no00:46no7 Nov
Port of Spain22:00 → 21:2100:34no01:30no7 Nov
London02:00 → 01:2122:52holds00:12no8 Nov
Durban04:00 → 03:2101:11holds01:51no8 Nov
Dubai06:00 → 05:2100:06holds01:08no8 Nov
Delhi07:30 → 06:5123:58holds01:01no8 Nov
Kolkata07:30 → 06:5123:23holds00:23no8 Nov
Singapore10:00 → 09:2101:21holds02:14no8 Nov
Sydney13:00 → 12:2102:05holds02:44no8 Nov
Suva14:00 → 13:2100:43holds01:29no8 Nov
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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