Ashmont Panchang

About Panchang in Ashmont

A panchang answers a simple question — what does today favour? — through five limbs: tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and vara. This is the complete panchang for Ashmont, Massachusetts on 17 June 2026, when the Shukla Paksha Tritiya tithi prevails and the Moon sits in Pushya nakshatra. Every auspicious and inauspicious window shown here is calculated from Ashmont's own sky at 42.28°N, 71.07°W, never recycled from a generic IST panchang.

Here is why this page is computed for Ashmont and not merely translated from an Indian almanac: the panchang's machinery turns on local sunrise. At 42.28°N, 71.07°W on America/New York time, Ashmont's day starts and ends at its own hours. On 17 June 2026 the sun rises over Ashmont at 5:07 AM and sets at 8:23 PM — figures no Indian city shares — and the inauspicious periods — Rahu Kalam, Yamaganda, Gulika — along with the choghadiya sequence and Abhijit Muhurat are all slices of that local daylight, so each sits at a different clock time than it would in India. A large timezone offset can even move the tithi onto a different calendar date.

How these timings are calculated: planetary longitudes come from the Swiss Ephemeris, the same high-precision library used by professional astrology software, with the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa — the sidereal reference adopted by India's official Rashtriya Panchang. Tithi changes when the Moon moves 12° ahead of the Sun; nakshatra changes as the Moon crosses each 13°20′ arc of the zodiac. These transition moments are universal, and we convert each one into America/New York local time, then derive sunrise-dependent windows from Ashmont's own horizon. The full method is documented on our methodology page.

If you live in Ashmont or elsewhere in Massachusetts, use this page the way a family priest would: check the tithi and nakshatra first, then choose your hour. Abhijit Muhurat (12:14 PM – 1:15 PM) is the day's most dependable auspicious window, while Rahu Kalam (12:45 PM – 2:39 PM) is best avoided for new beginnings. The choghadiya tables above divide Wednesday's daylight and night into auspicious and inauspicious spells — every figure already in Ashmont local time, with no conversion from IST required.

Read our full calculation methodology →