Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 2079

Tuesday 17 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 442 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 Monday 16 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

21:50 moonrise
20:3821:0221:2621:5022:1422:3823:02

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 17 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:01 moonrise
21:4922:1322:3723:0123:2523:4900:13

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 08:27 on Tue 17 Oct to 06:23 on Wed 18 Oct.

    2079-10-17T00:26:34Z → 2079-10-17T22:23:23Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 21:50 on the 16th and 23:01 on the 17th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 16th and is on the 17th.

    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 26519 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 2079: Tuesday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 2079 falls on Tuesday 17 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 08:27 on Tue 17 Oct to 06:23 on Wed 18 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2079/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 17 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 17thCoveredMoonrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:27 → 15:2300:38no01:48no16 Oct
Chicago19:27 → 17:2300:05no01:21no16 Oct
Jersey City20:27 → 18:2300:12no01:27no16 Oct
Port of Spain20:27 → 18:2300:33no01:32no16 Oct
London01:27 → 23:2323:10holds00:36no17 Oct
Durban02:27 → 00:2301:33no02:17no16 Oct
Dubai04:27 → 02:2323:54holds01:00no17 Oct
Delhi05:57 → 03:5323:43holds00:51no17 Oct
Kolkata05:57 → 03:5323:12holds00:17no17 Oct
Singapore08:27 → 06:2301:23holds02:20no17 Oct
Sydney11:27 → 09:2302:28holds03:12no17 Oct
Suva12:27 → 10:2300:54holds01:45no17 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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