The Moon and the stars — November 2028

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)

26 occultations you can see from New Delhi with small telescope (80 mm) this month, on 15 nights · 1126 in all from there

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

1 5

2 6

2 7

4 8

1 9

3 14

1 20

2 21

2 22

2 23

1 24

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 Sat 4 Nov

1
19:55:41 62 Tau V 6.3
Reappears at the dark limb
12° up in the ENE · dark sky · PA 280° · cusp 66°

Night of Sun 5 Nov

1
00:13:45 Gaia …3604736 V 6.8
Reappears at the dark limb
55° up in the E · dark sky · PA 291° · cusp 63°
2
00:13:47 118 Tau V 5.9
Reappears at the dark limb
55° up in the E · dark sky · PA 292° · cusp 63°

Night of Mon 6 Nov

1
21:39:17 TYC 1878-363-1 V 7.3
Reappears at the dark limb
11° up in the ENE · dark sky · PA 231° · cusp 49°
2
23:02:39 Gaia …2828544 V 7.2
Reappears at the dark limb
28° up in the ENE · dark sky · PA 205° · cusp 22°

Night of Tue 7 Nov

1
00:20:06 HIP 35909 V 7.7
Reappears at the dark limb
32° up in the E · dark sky · PA 266° · cusp 77°
2
01:02:47 63 Gem V 5.2
Disappears at the bright limb · reappears 02:20:35 at the dark limb
41° up in the E · dark sky · PA 88° · cusp 79°
3
01:43:08 HR 2835 V 6.5
Reappears at the dark limb
49° up in the E · dark sky · PA 305° · cusp 64°
4
02:29:04 HIP 36307 V 7.2
Reappears at the dark limb
59° up in the E · dark sky · PA 329° · cusp 40°

Night of Wed 8 Nov

1
02:04:08 TYC 1382-760-1 V 7.9
Reappears at the dark limb
41° up in the E · dark sky · PA 292° · cusp 82°

Night of Thu 9 Nov

1
04:49:41 TYC 822-267-1 V 8.2
Reappears at the dark limb
62° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 269° · cusp 71°

Night of Mon 13 Nov

1
04:38:28 HR 4901 V 6.0
Reappears at the dark limb
6° up in the ESE · dark sky · PA 260° · cusp 65°
2
05:53:04 HIP 63189 V 7.5
Reappears at the dark limb
21° up in the ESE · dusk · PA 271° · cusp 76°
3
06:09:02 HIP 63220 V 6.4
Reappears at the dark limb
24° up in the ESE · dusk · PA 261° · cusp 66°

Night of Tue 14 Nov

1
06:06:15 HIP 67896 V 6.6
Reappears at the dark limb
10° up in the ESE · dusk · PA 289° · cusp 78°

Night of Sun 19 Nov

1
19:10:50 HIP 90266 V 8.5
Disappears at the dark limb
8° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 51° · cusp 52°

Night of Mon 20 Nov

1
18:24:48 HR 7327 V 5.6
Disappears at the dark limb
26° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 103° · cusp 70°
2
19:25:13 HIP 95215 V 8.3
Disappears at the dark limb
16° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 70° · cusp 78°

Night of Tue 21 Nov

1
20:40:05 HIP 99984 V 7.4
Disappears at the dark limb
14° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 81° · cusp 86°
2
21:16:06 TYC 6332-1485-1 V 7.7
Disappears at the dark limb
8° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 73° · cusp 86°

Night of Wed 22 Nov

1
20:00:21 TYC 5783-445-1 V 8.0
Disappears at the dark limb
32° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 113° · cusp 49°
2
21:38:20 HIP 104239 V 7.2
Disappears at the dark limb
15° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 53° · cusp 71°

Night of Thu 23 Nov

1
21:04:57 HIP 107974 V 7.2
Disappears at the dark limb
32° up in the SW · dark sky · PA 62° · cusp 82°

Night of Fri 24 Nov

1
18:40:35 Gaia …6876160 V 8.0
Disappears at the dark limb
56° up in the S · dark sky · PA 32° · cusp 54°
2
21:59:57 κ Aqr V 5.0
Disappears at the dark limb · reappears 23:13:01 at the bright limb
32° up in the WSW · dark sky · PA 54° · cusp 76°

Night of Sun 26 Nov

1
01:21:30 HIP 682 V 7.6
Disappears at the dark limb
13° up in the W · dark sky · PA 13° · cusp 34°

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.