The Moon and the stars — November 2026

Lunar occultations of stars to magnitude 9.5, computed for your location

Every night the Moon slides in front of stars. A star doesn't fade behind it — it switches off, then switches back on at the other edge, often an hour later. Pick your place and what you observe with; the list keeps what you can realistically see.

Naked eye Binoculars Small telescope (80 mm) Telescope (200 mm)

37 occultations you can see from New Delhi with small telescope (80 mm) this month, on 18 nights · 1141 in all from there

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

2 3

2 4

1 13

1 14

1 15

2 16

3 19

2 20

1 21

2 22

2 26

1 29

1 30

Times in IST. A night runs from noon to noon, so an event at 01:30 stays with the evening before. On each Moon, the numbered marks show where on the limb each star disappears or reappears.

Night of Mon 2 Nov

1
01:52:48 ψ Leo V 5.4
Reappears at the dark limb
14° up in the E · dark sky · PA 320° · cusp 60°
2
04:22:38 HIP 48060 V 7.5
Reappears at the dark limb
46° up in the E · dark sky · PA 301° · cusp 79°

Night of Tue 3 Nov

1
02:20:40 HIP 51787 V 8.2
Reappears at the dark limb
7° up in the E · dark sky · PA 332° · cusp 50°
2
05:06:16 HIP 52164 V 8.5
Reappears at the dark limb
42° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 328° · cusp 53°

Night of Wed 4 Nov

1
03:24:11 79 Leo V 5.4
Reappears at the dark limb
8° up in the E · dark sky · PA 263° · cusp 61°
2
03:49:40 HIP 55703 V 8.5
Reappears at the dark limb
13° up in the E · dark sky · PA 251° · cusp 49°
3
04:31:26 TYC 264-571-1 V 8.2
Reappears at the dark limb
22° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 243° · cusp 42°
4
04:41:27 TYC 264-31-1 V 7.5
Reappears at the dark limb
24° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 7° · cusp 14°
5
04:57:04 TYC 264-546-1 V 8.2
Reappears at the dark limb
27° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 272° · cusp 70°
6
04:58:22 HIP 55906 V 7.4
Reappears at the dark limb
28° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 353° · cusp 28°
7
05:35:24 HIP 55907 V 7.2
Reappears at the dark limb
35° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 286° · cusp 85°

Night of Thu 12 Nov

1
18:04:02 HIP 86317 V 6.9
Disappears at the dark limb
14° up in the SW · dusk · PA 17° · cusp 8°

Night of Fri 13 Nov

1
19:46:22 TYC 6866-1820-1 V 8.0
Disappears at the dark limb
6° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 90° · cusp 90°

Night of Sat 14 Nov

1
19:28:07 HIP 95606 V 8.5
Disappears at the dark limb · reappears 19:42:53 at the dark limb
19° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 142° · cusp 32°

Night of Sun 15 Nov

1
20:08:43 HIP 100067 V 7.7
Disappears at the dark limb
22° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 51° · cusp 63°
2
20:36:38 4 Cap V 5.9
Disappears at the dark limb
18° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 4° · cusp 16°

Night of Mon 16 Nov

1
18:54:59 HIP 103976 V 7.9
Disappears at the dark limb
40° up in the SSW · dark sky · PA 359° · cusp 16°
2
20:58:22 TYC 6350-699-1 V 8.2
Disappears at the dark limb
24° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 106° · cusp 57°
3
21:48:52 HR 8083 V 6.2
Disappears at the dark limb
16° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 357° · cusp 14°

Night of Wed 18 Nov

1
19:23:00 HR 8612 V 6.2
Disappears at the dark limb
53° up in the S · dark sky · PA 75° · cusp 83°
2
20:29:14 HIP 111863 V 7.7
Disappears at the dark limb
49° up in the SSW · dark sky · PA 70° · cusp 88°
3
23:24:02 67 Aqr V 6.4
Disappears at the dark limb
20° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 94° · cusp 64°

Night of Thu 19 Nov

1
19:47:57 Gaia …6990336 V 7.5
Disappears at the dark limb
60° up in the S · dark sky · PA 44° · cusp 66°
2
23:40:20 HIP 115951 V 6.9
Disappears at the dark limb
29° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 112° · cusp 46°

Night of Fri 20 Nov

1
18:47:44 HIP 900 V 7.5
Disappears at the dark limb
55° up in the SE · dark sky · PA 59° · cusp 80°

Night of Sat 21 Nov

1
23:35:15 Gaia …0879488 V 7.2
Disappears at the dark limb
55° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 55° · cusp 72°
2
02:49:41 HIP 5631 V 6.9
Disappears at the dark limb
15° up in the W · dark sky · PA 43° · cusp 60°

Night of Sun 22 Nov

1
03:17:32 Gaia …9086848 V 6.6
Disappears at the dark limb
22° up in the W · dark sky · PA 46° · cusp 56°

Night of Wed 25 Nov

1
19:10:48 Gaia …1164288 V 6.9
Reappears at the dark limb
13° up in the ENE · dark sky · PA 208° · cusp 49°
2
22:52:37 HIP 24046 V 7.0
Reappears at the dark limb
59° up in the E · dark sky · PA 306° · cusp 34°

Night of Thu 26 Nov

1
22:40:40 HIP 29955 V 6.7
Reappears at the dark limb
42° up in the ENE · dark sky · PA 305° · cusp 50°
2
04:18:35 HR 2339 V 6.6
Reappears at the dark limb
66° up in the W · dark sky · PA 303° · cusp 54°

Night of Sat 28 Nov

1
00:42:28 η Cnc V 5.3
Disappears at the bright limb · reappears 01:57:25 at the dark limb
39° up in the E · dark sky · PA 103° · cusp 90°

Night of Sun 29 Nov

1
06:12:30 7 Leo V 6.3
Reappears at the dark limb
71° up in the SW · dusk · PA 343° · cusp 36°

Night of Mon 30 Nov

1
00:41:30 HIP 50539 V 7.8
Reappears at the dark limb
13° up in the E · dark sky · PA 218° · cusp 17°
2
02:34:53 HIP 50792 V 6.7
Reappears at the dark limb
37° up in the E · dark sky · PA 261° · cusp 60°
3
04:26:38 44 Leo V 5.6
Reappears at the dark limb
59° up in the SE · dark sky · PA 324° · cusp 58°

Reading the list

The Moons are drawn from LRO LOLA topography (a 40 KB relief map), lit by the Sun as it is at that moment and turned to the Moon's real libration: north up, east to the left. A dark-limb event — the star vanishing into, or popping out of, the unlit edge of the Moon — is easy to see. At the bright limb only bright stars show against the glare. PA is where on the limb it happens, measured from north through east; the cusp angle is the distance from the nearest horn of the crescent. graze marks a star passing within 3″ of the edge from your place: a few kilometres from a graze line, where it may blink several times behind mountains.

Instrument	dark limb	bright limb
Naked eye	V ≤ 3.0	V ≤ 1.0
Binoculars	V ≤ 6.5	V ≤ 3.5
Small telescope (80 mm)	V ≤ 8.5	V ≤ 5.5
Telescope (200 mm)	V ≤ 9.5	V ≤ 7.0

Those limits are rules of thumb: the dark-limb limit drops by 2.5 magnitudes × (lit fraction − 0.4) in moonglare and by 1 in twilight; events with the Moon under 5° are left out, and daylight events except for the brightest stars. Stars are from Gaia DR3 to G 9.5, with Hipparcos-2 for the brightest and the Yale Bright Star Catalogue for names; the Moon is from the JPL DE431 ephemeris. Times are for the Moon's mean limb, ±2 s — mountains at the edge can move a contact by a few seconds, and much more near a graze.