Occult occultations, computed
Location

Jupiter's moons in November 2028

Io · Europa · Ganymede · Callisto

Jupiter's four big moons put on a show every night: they slip behind the planet and into its shadow, cross its face, and drag their shadows across the cloud tops. Any telescope shows it. Pick your place: the calendar and the nights keep only what your sky shows.

Where the moons are

Jupiter · November 2028

Jupiter's equator horizontal, east to the left as in binoculars. Drag through the month, or tap any event below to jump there; full screen (⤢) steps through a single night a minute at a time. Moons behind the planet fade, a moon in Jupiter's shadow is an empty ring, and a shadow on the disc is placed from the listed times. Positions ±0.1 Jupiter radii — for the picture; the times come from JPL.

Events

11 events you can see from New Delhi this month, on 8 nights

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Times in IST, when the moon's centre crosses the edge — as almanacs list them. A night runs from noon to noon. Tap an event to see it in the diagram.

Night of Wed 1 Nov

  1. Io in Jupiter's shadow
    05:45 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 12 min
    Jupiter 14° up · dusk

Night of Thu 2 Nov

  1. Io crosses Jupiter
    03:32 enters → 05:46 leaves · 2 h 14 min
    Jupiter below the horizon

Night of Thu 9 Nov

  1. Io crosses Jupiter
    05:33 enters → 07:46 leaves · 2 h 13 min
    Jupiter 17° up · dark sky

Night of Fri 10 Nov

  1. Io behind Jupiter
    disappears unseen → 04:58 reappears · 2 h 12 min
    Jupiter 10° up · dark sky
  2. Europa crosses Jupiter
    05:22 enters → 07:57 leaves · 2 h 35 min
    Jupiter 15° up · dark sky

Night of Sun 19 Nov

  1. Europa behind Jupiter
    disappears unseen → 05:41 reappears · 2 h 36 min
    Jupiter 25° up · dark sky

Night of Tue 21 Nov

  1. Ganymede in Jupiter's shadow
    02:39 disappears → 05:07 reappears · 2 h 28 min
    Jupiter below the horizon
  2. Ganymede behind Jupiter
    05:58 disappears → 08:25 reappears · 2 h 28 min
    Jupiter 29° up · dusk

Night of Fri 24 Nov

  1. Io in Jupiter's shadow
    05:53 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 12 min
    Jupiter 30° up · dark sky

Night of Sat 25 Nov

  1. Io's shadow crosses Jupiter
    03:13 enters → 05:22 leaves · 2 h 10 min
    Jupiter below the horizon
  2. Io crosses Jupiter
    04:02 enters → 06:14 leaves · 2 h 13 min
    Jupiter 8° up · dark sky

Reading the list

Times are for the moment the moon's centre crosses the edge of Jupiter or of its shadow, the convention of published tables; the moon's own disc takes a few minutes to cross. A start or end marked unseen happens behind Jupiter or inside its shadow. “Only what I can see” keeps events with Jupiter more than 10° up in a dark sky. Positions are from JPL DE431 and the jup365 satellite ephemeris, Jupiter as an oblate spheroid with its shadow cone. Mutual-event brightness drops assume uniform discs and are estimates. Events are geocentric — the same instant everywhere on Earth to well under a second.