Accurate Rahukaalam Calculator for your Location
Posted by Sree Pillai on August 10th, 2007 under category General
Topics: Bharat, Rahukalam, Spiritual
If you are a Hindu, you would have heard of Rahukaalam. According to Hindus, Rahukaalam is very inauspicious to undertake any new venture.
As a general rule, the Rahukaalam [or Rahukalam or Ragukalam or Rahu Kaalam] is observed for 90 minutes everyday at any place, assuming sunrise at 6am and sunset at 6pm.
Monday (7:30 – 9:00), Tuesday (15:00 – 16:30), Wednesday (12:00 – 13:30), Thursday (13:30 – 15:00), Friday (10:30 – 12:00), Saturday (9:00 – 10:30), Sunday (16:30 – 18:00).
As per the vedic rules, rahukaalam for each day is calculated using an equation. Divide the time period between sunrise and sunset into eight equal parts, called time octants. Arrange the days of the week in the order M,Sa,F,W,Th,Tu,Su (Monday, Saturday, Friday, Wednesday, Thursday, Tuesday, Sunday) and assign the second through the eighth time octants to these days in this order. These time octants then are the Raahukaalam on each of the days of the week.
The sunrise and sunset local time at a place depends on the latitude and longitude at the location, and hence Rahukaalam also varies accordingly. I thought of having an easy way of calculating the accurate Rahukaalam and came up with this
Rahukaalam Calculator (Microsoft Excel). Hope this helps those who believe in it (or forced to follow this!).
If you don’t know the latitude and longitude at your location, try this easy Google map based Latitude and Longitude Finder.
This Excel workbook is originally from Department of Ecology, Washington State, USA. The Excel contains VBA functions for sunrise/sunset and solar position: dawn, sunrise, solar noon, sunset, dusk, solar azimuth, solar elevation. The calculation of local times of sunrise, solar noon, sunset, dawn, and dusk based on the calculation procedure by NOAA.
I modified the Excel to calculate the accurate Rahukaalam at your local latitude and longitude.
Download Rahukaalam Calculator (Microsoft Excel). You need to enable Macros for this Excel VBA application.
Astronomically, Rahu and Ketu denotes the two points of intersection of the paths of the Sun and the Moon as they move on the celestial sphere. Rahu and Ketu are respectively called the north and the south lunar nodes. more…
Do you believe in and observe Rahukaalam? Any good or bad experiences you had with it?
4 Responses to “Accurate Rahukaalam Calculator for your Location”
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Thanks. This will be useful for me to know the rahukaalams. I use it to know the rahukaalam & do all my things preferably ONLY at that “supposedly inauspicious time” [as per the ANCIENT-WISDOM (Now that's an Oxymoron!) of ignorant bronze age nomads with no knowledge of the true cosmos or anything else! You might have heard of the statement- "Half knowledge is dangerous". Now if half knowledge itself is dangerous, imagine how much more dangerous all these rubbish of astrology, horoscopy, etc is; considering that these are IGNORANCE WITH 100% CERTAINTY!]
There is no truth to any of these rubbish. All superstitions persist because of FEAR, IGNORANCE, GRIEF & GREED. Don’t believe anything for these 4 reasons- Tradition, Authority, Revelation & Scriptures. Ask questions. Always be skeptical of such extraordinary, supernatural claims. Grow up!
thank you very much for the calculator!
Many tahnks for the accurate Rahu Kalam calculator.
Pankaj
Thanks Sree for the rahu kalam calc. It is very informative and useful. It helps to follow the ‘real’ rahu kalam. I believe rahu kaalam because my parents believe in it. I don’t know anything about it though!