The Moon and the stars — March 2027

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)

27 occultations you can see from New Delhi with small telescope (80 mm) this month, on 13 nights · 1172 in all from there

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

1 2

2 18

6 19

2 22

2 27

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 1 Mar

1
04:35:59 TYC 6850-2130-1 V 8.5
Reappears at the dark limb
17° up in the SE · dark sky · PA 350° · cusp 8°

Night of Tue 2 Mar

1
04:49:32 HIP 92808 V 7.8
Reappears at the dark limb
12° up in the SE · dark sky · PA 235° · cusp 63°

Night of Thu 4 Mar

1
05:40:24 HIP 101666 V 7.2
Reappears at the dark limb
9° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 266° · cusp 77°

Night of Sat 13 Mar

1
21:05:34 HIP 16132 V 7.9
Disappears at the dark limb
28° up in the WNW · dark sky · PA 54° · cusp 71°
2
22:04:19 HIP 16295 V 8.2
Disappears at the dark limb
16° up in the WNW · dark sky · PA 64° · cusp 80°

Night of Mon 15 Mar

1
22:26:26 HIP 26094 V 7.8
Disappears at the dark limb
37° up in the WNW · dark sky · PA 139° · cusp 38°
2
22:27:36 HIP 26134 V 8.1
Disappears at the dark limb
37° up in the WNW · dark sky · PA 98° · cusp 80°
3
00:06:57 HR 1902 V 6.6
Disappears at the dark limb
17° up in the WNW · dark sky · PA 175° · cusp 2°
4
00:07:04 HR 1902 V 6.6
Disappears at the dark limb
17° up in the WNW · dark sky · PA 175° · cusp 2°

Night of Wed 17 Mar

1
00:29:48 HIP 37747 V 7.4
Disappears at the dark limb
35° up in the W · dark sky · PA 45° · cusp 34°
2
00:36:34 HIP 37799 V 7.5
Disappears at the dark limb
34° up in the W · dark sky · PA 112° · cusp 79°

Night of Thu 18 Mar

1
19:25:48 35 Cnc V 6.6
Disappears at the dark limb
64° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 190° · cusp 5°
2
21:07:01 TYC 1395-1928-1 V 7.4
Disappears at the dark limb
81° up in the SSE · dark sky · PA 62° · cusp 46°
3
21:34:38 TYC 1395-2737-1 V 6.6
Disappears at the dark limb
80° up in the SSW · dark sky · PA 71° · cusp 55°
4
21:41:16 Gaia …0524544 V 7.4
Disappears at the dark limb
79° up in the SSW · dark sky · PA 63° · cusp 47°
5
21:52:37 Gaia …8904448 V 6.8
Disappears at the dark limb
78° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 98° · cusp 82°
6
03:33:32 HIP 43421 V 6.9
Disappears at the dark limb
7° up in the WNW · dark sky · PA 66° · cusp 50°

Night of Fri 19 Mar

1
23:27:15 HIP 47388 V 7.0
Disappears at the dark limb
67° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 121° · cusp 77°
2
00:22:37 HIP 47468 V 6.9
Disappears at the dark limb
56° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 123° · cusp 75°
3
04:13:58 18 Leo V 5.7
Disappears at the dark limb
7° up in the W · dark sky · PA 195° · cusp 3°

Night of Sun 21 Mar

1
19:05:09 76 Leo V 5.9
Disappears at the dark limb
18° up in the E · dusk · PA 97° · cusp 87°
2
03:17:23 HIP 56061 V 7.0
Disappears at the dark limb
33° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 168° · cusp 10°

Night of Mon 22 Mar

1
22:59:51 HIP 59676 V 6.6
Reappears at the dark limb
48° up in the SE · dark sky · PA 349° · cusp 78°

Night of Wed 24 Mar

1
22:04:10 HIP 67896 V 6.6
Reappears at the dark limb
15° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 304° · cusp 86°

Night of Fri 26 Mar

1
23:30:26 TYC 6781-1134-1 V 7.2
Reappears at the dark limb
7° up in the SE · dark sky · PA 258° · cusp 61°
2
02:21:30 HIP 77394 V 7.0
Reappears at the dark limb
31° up in the SSE · dark sky · PA 237° · cusp 40°

Night of Sat 27 Mar

1
02:38:17 HR 6216 V 6.7
Reappears at the dark limb
26° up in the SSE · dark sky · PA 348° · cusp 21°

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.