Jupiter's moons in May 2027
Io · Europa · Ganymede · Callisto · 9 mutual events
Jupiter's four big moons put on a show every night. They pass behind it, into its shadow and across its face, and their shadows cross its clouds. Any telescope shows it. This is a mutual-event season: the moons' orbits are edge-on to the Sun, so they eclipse and hide each other. Pick your place to see only what's visible from there.
Where the moons are
Jupiter'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 ±0.1 Jupiter radii, for the picture; the times come from JPL.
Events
34 events you can see from New Delhi this month, on 21 nights
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 Sat 1 May
- Io in Jupiter's shadowdisappears unseen → 22:05 reappears · 2 h 17 min
- Ganymede occults Io00:14 · 4.6 min
Night of Sun 2 May
- Callisto in Jupiter's shadow20:35 disappears → 01:06 reappears · 4 h 31 min
Night of Tue 4 May
- Europa behind Jupiter20:44 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 53 min
Night of Wed 5 May
- Ganymede behind Jupiter19:06 disappears → 22:46 reappears · 3 h 40 min
- Ganymede in Jupiter's shadow00:19 disappears → 03:54 reappears · 3 h 35 min
Night of Thu 6 May
- Europa's shadow crosses Jupiter18:27 enters → 21:14 leaves · 2 h 47 min
Night of Fri 7 May
- Io crosses Jupiter23:05 enters → 01:23 leaves · 2 h 18 min
- Io's shadow crosses Jupiter00:23 enters → 02:37 leaves · 2 h 14 min
Night of Sat 8 May
- Io behind Jupiter20:26 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 18 min
- Io in Jupiter's shadowdisappears unseen → 00:00 reappears · 2 h 17 min
Night of Sun 9 May
- Io crosses Jupiter17:34 enters → 19:52 leaves · 2 h 18 min
- Io's shadow crosses Jupiter18:50 enters → 21:05 leaves · 2 h 15 min
Night of Mon 10 May
- Callisto crosses Jupiter18:45 enters → 23:31 leaves · 4 h 46 min
Night of Tue 11 May
- Europa behind Jupiter23:20 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 53 min
Night of Wed 12 May
- Ganymede behind Jupiter23:06 disappears → 02:46 reappears · 3 h 40 min
Night of Thu 13 May
- Europa crosses Jupiter18:30 enters → 21:22 leaves · 2 h 52 min
- Europa's shadow crosses Jupiter21:03 enters → 23:51 leaves · 2 h 49 min
Night of Sat 15 May
- Io behind Jupiter22:21 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 18 min
Night of Sun 16 May
- Ganymede's shadow crosses Jupiter18:17 enters → 21:46 leaves · 3 h 29 min
- Io crosses Jupiter19:29 enters → 21:48 leaves · 2 h 18 min
- Io's shadow crosses Jupiter20:47 enters → 23:01 leaves · 2 h 14 min
- Ganymede's shadow crosses Jupiter21:52 enters → 21:56 leaves · 4 min
Night of Mon 17 May
- Io in Jupiter's shadowdisappears unseen → 20:24 reappears · 2 h 17 min
Night of Thu 20 May
- Europa crosses Jupiter21:07 enters → 23:59 leaves · 2 h 52 min
- Europa's shadow crosses Jupiter23:39 enters → 02:25 leaves · 2 h 47 min
Night of Sat 22 May
- Europa in Jupiter's shadowdisappears unseen → 20:41 reappears · 2 h 50 min
Night of Sun 23 May
- Ganymede crosses Jupiter17:13 enters → 20:51 leaves · 3 h 39 min
- Io crosses Jupiter21:26 enters → 23:44 leaves · 2 h 18 min
- Ganymede's shadow crosses Jupiter22:17 enters → 01:46 leaves · 3 h 29 min
- Io's shadow crosses Jupiter22:41 enters → 00:57 leaves · 2 h 16 min
Night of Mon 24 May
- Io in Jupiter's shadowdisappears unseen → 22:19 reappears · 2 h 17 min
Night of Sun 30 May
- Ganymede crosses Jupiter21:21 enters → 01:00 leaves · 3 h 39 min
Night of Mon 31 May
- Io behind Jupiter20:44 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 18 min
Reading the list
Times are when the moon's centre crosses the edge of Jupiter or its shadow, as in published tables. The whole disc takes a few minutes. A start or end marked unseen happens behind Jupiter or inside its shadow. “Only what I can see” keeps events with Jupiter more than 10° up in a dark sky. Positions: JPL DE431 and jup365, with Jupiter as a flattened globe. Mutual-event brightness drops are estimates. Each event happens at the same instant everywhere on Earth.