The Moon and the stars — November 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)

37 occultations you can see from New Delhi with small telescope (80 mm) this month, on 15 nights · 1150 in all from there

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1 4

1 5

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2 7

2 14

1 20

3 21

5 22

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 Nov

1
18:55:42 HIP 82512 V 7.5
Disappears at the dark limb
6° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 48° · cusp 35°

Night of Tue 2 Nov

1
18:48:44 HR 6621 V 6.3
Disappears at the dark limb
16° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 46° · cusp 41°
2
19:40:20 HIP 87306 V 7.0
Disappears at the dark limb
7° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 91° · cusp 86°
3
19:51:57 Gaia …3206656 V 8.0
Disappears at the dark limb
5° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 26° · cusp 22°

Night of Wed 3 Nov

1
19:22:34 HIP 91967 V 8.3
Disappears at the dark limb
20° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 85° · cusp 88°

Night of Thu 4 Nov

1
18:34:05 TYC 6889-612-1 V 8.0
Disappears at the dark limb
34° up in the SSW · dark sky · PA 39° · cusp 48°

Night of Fri 5 Nov

1
20:13:44 Gaia …7994112 V 8.3
Disappears at the dark limb
31° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 21° · cusp 35°

Night of Sat 6 Nov

1
21:20:36 29 Cap V 5.3
Disappears at the dark limb · reappears 22:34:57 at the bright limb
31° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 53° · cusp 70°
2
22:27:04 HIP 105042 V 8.1
Disappears at the dark limb
19° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 10° · cusp 28°

Night of Sun 7 Nov

1
21:08:39 HIP 108582 V 7.9
Disappears at the dark limb
42° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 5° · cusp 25°

Night of Tue 9 Nov

1
23:20:51 HIP 116034 V 7.2
Disappears at the dark limb
42° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 35° · cusp 56°
2
02:21:14 HIP 116422 V 6.5
Disappears at the dark limb
5° up in the W · dark sky · PA 99° · cusp 60°

Night of Sat 13 Nov

1
05:45:57 HIP 13892 V 6.8
Disappears at the dark limb
11° up in the WNW · dark sky · PA 138° · cusp 87°
2
05:45:57 HIP 13892 V 6.8
Disappears at the dark limb
11° up in the WNW · dark sky · PA 138° · cusp 87°

Night of Sun 14 Nov

1
22:12:16 16 Tau V 5.5
Disappears at the bright limb · reappears 23:32:53 at the dark limb
58° up in the E · dark sky · PA 75° · cusp 62°
2
22:18:08 Electra (17 Tau) V 3.7
Disappears at the bright limb · reappears 23:10:24 at the dark limb
60° up in the E · dark sky · PA 117° · cusp 20°
3
22:36:38 Taygeta (19 Tau) V 4.3
Disappears at the bright limb · reappears 23:54:20 at the dark limb
64° up in the E · dark sky · PA 47° · cusp 90°
4
22:48:42 Maia (20 Tau) V 3.9
Disappears at the bright limb · reappears 00:12:29 at the dark limb
66° up in the E · dark sky · PA 79° · cusp 59°
5
00:21:22 21 Tau V 5.8
Reappears at the dark limb
85° up in the SE · dark sky · PA 278° · cusp 41°
6
00:27:19 22 Tau V 6.5
Reappears at the dark limb
86° up in the SSE · dark sky · PA 270° · cusp 49°
7
00:42:41 HIP 17704 V 6.8
Reappears at the dark limb
86° up in the SSW · dark sky · PA 186° · cusp 47°
8
00:51:58 TYC 1800-1601-1 V 7.0
Disappears at the dark limb · reappears 01:19:47 at the dark limb
85° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 147° · cusp 8°
9
01:02:47 HIP 17664 V 6.8
Reappears at the dark limb
83° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 255° · cusp 64°
10
01:36:23 HIP 17862 V 6.6
Disappears at the dark limb · reappears 01:44:54 at the dark limb
76° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 162° · cusp 22°

Night of Wed 17 Nov

1
01:23:41 HIP 33419 V 6.8
Reappears at the dark limb
61° up in the E · dark sky · PA 285° · cusp 79°
2
03:26:48 ω Gem V 5.2
Disappears at the bright limb · reappears 04:45:16 at the dark limb
85° up in the SSE · dark sky · PA 133° · cusp 52°

Night of Fri 19 Nov

1
02:33:06 TYC 1394-1163-1 V 7.9
Reappears at the dark limb
48° up in the E · dark sky · PA 242° · cusp 46°

Night of Sat 20 Nov

1
00:13:08 HR 3882 V 7.0
Reappears at the dark limb
5° up in the E · dark sky · PA 313° · cusp 66°
2
01:25:00 Gaia …8020736 V 7.6
Reappears at the dark limb
20° up in the E · dark sky · PA 292° · cusp 88°
3
04:54:00 HIP 48657 V 8.1
Reappears at the dark limb
63° up in the SE · dark sky · PA 240° · cusp 40°

Night of Sun 21 Nov

1
02:20:23 HIP 52438 V 8.3
Reappears at the dark limb
19° up in the E · dark sky · PA 259° · cusp 58°
2
02:26:22 Gaia …9910400 V 7.2
Reappears at the dark limb
20° up in the E · dark sky · PA 281° · cusp 80°
3
02:26:32 35 Sex V 6.1
Reappears at the dark limb
20° up in the E · dark sky · PA 282° · cusp 80°
4
03:20:29 TYC 257-246-1 V 8.5
Reappears at the dark limb
31° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 240° · cusp 39°
5
03:44:24 HIP 52705 V 8.0
Reappears at the dark limb
36° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 359° · cusp 23°

Night of Mon 22 Nov

1
05:18:13 HR 4484 V 6.3
Reappears at the dark limb
41° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 250° · cusp 48°
2
05:51:26 TYC 4933-235-1 V 8.1
Reappears at the dark limb
47° up in the SE · dark sky · PA 248° · cusp 47°

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.