Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 2080

Monday 4 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 650 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 Sunday 3 November

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:03 moonrise
20:5121:1521:3922:0322:2722:5123:15

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Monday 4 November

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:19 moonrise
22:0722:3122:5523:1923:4300:0700:31

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 12:15 on Mon 4 Nov to 10:09 on Tue 5 Nov.

    2080-11-04T04:15:08Z → 2080-11-05T02:09:04Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:03 on the 3rd and 23:19 on the 4th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 3rd and is on the 4th.

    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 39029 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 2080: Monday 4 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 2080 falls on Monday 4 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 12:15 on Mon 4 Nov to 10:09 on Tue 5 Nov and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2080/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 4 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 4 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 4 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 4thCoveredMoonrise 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:15 → 18:0923:52no01:01no3 Nov
Chicago22:15 → 20:0923:26no00:42no3 Nov
Jersey City23:15 → 21:0923:32no00:47no3 Nov
Port of Spain00:15 → 22:0900:31no01:27no3 Nov
London04:15 → 02:0922:46holds00:14no4 Nov
Durban06:15 → 04:0901:09holds01:46no4 Nov
Dubai08:15 → 06:0900:01holds01:06no4 Nov
Delhi09:45 → 07:3923:53holds01:00no4 Nov
Kolkata09:45 → 07:3923:18holds00:21no4 Nov
Singapore12:15 → 10:0901:17holds02:11no4 Nov
Sydney15:15 → 13:0902:04holds02:40no4 Nov
Suva16:15 → 14:0900:40holds01:25no4 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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