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Saturn's moons in October 2028

Mimas · Enceladus · Tethys · Dione · Rhea · Titan · Iapetus

Saturn's moons cross its face and enter its shadow only near a ring-plane crossing, when their orbits are edge-on to us. That's now, after the 2025 equinox. Titan is easy in any telescope; Rhea, Dione and Tethys need a little more aperture. Pick your place to see only what's visible from there.

Where the moons are

Saturn · October 2028

Saturn's equator horizontal, east to the left as in binoculars. Drag through the month or tap an event to jump to it. Full screen (⤢) steps through one night minute by minute. A faded moon is behind the planet; an empty ring is a moon in its shadow. Positions are JPL's, sampled hourly; the rings are drawn at their real tilt.

Events

11 events you can see from New Delhi this month, on 11 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 Sun 1 Oct

  1. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    02:08 enters → 02:26 leaves · 19 min
    Saturn 74° up · dark sky

Night of Mon 2 Oct

  1. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    00:46 enters → 01:02 leaves · 16 min
    Saturn 65° up · dark sky

Night of Tue 3 Oct

  1. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    23:25 enters → 23:37 leaves · 13 min
    Saturn 50° up · dark sky

Night of Wed 4 Oct

  1. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    22:04 enters → 22:12 leaves · 8 min
    Saturn 34° up · dark sky

Night of Sat 7 Oct

  1. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    04:52 disappears → 05:19 reappears · 27 min
    Saturn 43° up · dark sky

Night of Sun 8 Oct

  1. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    03:30 disappears → 03:56 reappears · 26 min
    Saturn 59° up · dark sky

Night of Mon 9 Oct

  1. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    02:08 disappears → 02:32 reappears · 24 min
    Saturn 72° up · dark sky

Night of Tue 10 Oct

  1. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    00:46 disappears → 01:09 reappears · 23 min
    Saturn 70° up · dark sky

Night of Wed 11 Oct

  1. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    23:24 disappears → 23:45 reappears · 21 min
    Saturn 57° up · dark sky

Night of Thu 12 Oct

  1. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    22:03 disappears → 22:21 reappears · 19 min
    Saturn 41° up · dark sky

Night of Fri 13 Oct

  1. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    20:41 disappears → 20:58 reappears · 17 min
    Saturn 24° up · dark sky

Reading the list

Times are when the moon's centre crosses the edge of Saturn or its shadow, as in published tables. The whole disc takes a few minutes. A start or end marked unseen happens behind Saturn or inside its shadow. “Only what I can see” keeps events with Saturn more than 10° up in a dark sky. Positions: JPL DE431 and sat441, with Saturn as a flattened globe. The rings are not modelled, so “behind Saturn” means behind the globe. Mutual-event brightness drops are estimates. Each event happens at the same instant everywhere on Earth.