Free: Sunyra Lens No. 1, November 2026 — day-by-day panchang, your November by Moon sign, a free calendar for your own chart, Dev Uthani Ekadashi (20-21 Nov) and Kartik Purnima (24 Nov), computed: https://sunyra.ai/lens/2026-11/
Kartik Purnima 2026 is on Tuesday 24 November. Computed with the Sunyra engine for New Delhi: Purnima from 23:43 IST on 23 Nov to 20:24 IST on 24 Nov (it holds the sunrise and the evening of the 24th); the full Moon is exact at 20:24 IST, in sidereal Taurus 8° (the Moon's exaltation sign), in the nakshatra Krittika, the Pleiades. In this video: the times, why the month of Kartika is named after Krittika, Agni and the six Krittikas, how the day is kept (Kartik snan, deepdaan, Dev Deepawali in Varanasi, Guru Nanak Jayanti), the sky that night (no eclipse), and what the full Moon lights up for all twelve Moon signs.
Sources: Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra ch. 3 (the Moon exalted in Taurus); Mahabharata, Vana Parva (the Krittikas). Tithi, nakshatra, moonrise and positions computed with the Sunyra engine. Regional calendars can differ by a day: check your local panchang.
Krittika nakshatra (free): https://sunyra.ai/nakshatras/krittika/
The Moon in Taurus: https://sunyra.ai/planets-in-signs/moon-in-taurus/
This week by Moon sign: https://sunyra.ai/weekly-horoscope/2026-11-23-moon-sign/
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Chapters
0:00 The full Moon of Kartika
0:42 When is Purnima?
1:25 Why Krittika matters
2:24 The day itself
3:14 The sky that night
3:51 Your Moon sign
5:01 Recap
5:47 Sunyra Lens, November
Image credits (public domain and Creative Commons, used under their licences; cards and diagrams are original)
- Pritiwary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dev_Diwali_of_varanasi.jpg
- Sumita Roy Dutta · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dev_Deepavali_at_Varanasi_DSC04305_01.jpg
- आर्या जोशी · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kartik_Purnima_Worship_in_Pune.jpg
- NASA, ESA, AURA/Caltech, Palomar Observatory · Public domain · commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleiades_large.jpg
- Giuseppe Donatiello from Oria (Brindisi), Italy · CC0 · commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldebaran_and_the_Hyades_-_Flickr_-_gjdonatiello.jpg
- Gregory H. Revera · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FullMoon2010.jpg
- Caspar David Friedrich · Public domain · commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Mondaufgang_am_Meer_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
- Raja Ravi Varma · Public domain · commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murugan_by_Raja_Ravi_Varma.jpg
- Kangra painting, c. 1830 (San Diego Museum of Art) · Public domain · commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surya_surrounded_by_the_signs_of_the_Zodiac_(6124594863).jpg
- Sunyra · original artwork · sunyra.ai/lens/2026-11/
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