Jupiter's moons in June 2028
Io · Europa · Ganymede · Callisto
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. 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
28 events you can see from New Delhi this month, on 19 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 Fri 2 Jun
- Ganymede behind Jupiter21:50 disappears → 01:04 reappears · 3 h 14 min
- Io behind Jupiter23:30 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 16 min
Night of Sat 3 Jun
- Io crosses Jupiter20:39 enters → 22:54 leaves · 2 h 15 min
- Io's shadow crosses Jupiter21:55 enters → 00:07 leaves · 2 h 13 min
Night of Sun 4 Jun
- Io in Jupiter's shadowdisappears unseen → 21:30 reappears · 2 h 14 min
Night of Mon 5 Jun
- Europa behind Jupiter21:41 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 43 min
Night of Tue 6 Jun
- Ganymede's shadow crosses Jupiter16:58 enters → 19:52 leaves · 2 h 54 min
Night of Wed 7 Jun
- Europa's shadow crosses Jupiter19:20 enters → 21:57 leaves · 2 h 37 min
- Callisto in Jupiter's shadow21:53 disappears → 22:57 reappears · 1 h 04 min
- Europa's shadow crosses Jupiter22:01 enters → 22:03 leaves · 2 min
Night of Sat 10 Jun
- Io crosses Jupiter22:33 enters → 00:49 leaves · 2 h 15 min
Night of Sun 11 Jun
- Io behind Jupiter19:53 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 16 min
- Io in Jupiter's shadowdisappears unseen → 23:25 reappears · 2 h 14 min
Night of Mon 12 Jun
- Io's shadow crosses Jupiter18:18 enters → 20:29 leaves · 2 h 11 min
Night of Tue 13 Jun
- Ganymede's shadow crosses Jupiter20:57 enters → 23:48 leaves · 2 h 50 min
Night of Wed 14 Jun
- Europa crosses Jupiter19:22 enters → 22:06 leaves · 2 h 44 min
- Europa's shadow crosses Jupiter21:57 enters → 00:33 leaves · 2 h 37 min
Night of Thu 15 Jun
- Callisto crosses Jupiter18:40 enters → 21:25 leaves · 2 h 45 min
Night of Sun 18 Jun
- Io behind Jupiter21:49 disappears → reappears unseen · 2 h 16 min
Night of Mon 19 Jun
- Io crosses Jupiter18:58 enters → 21:13 leaves · 2 h 15 min
- Io's shadow crosses Jupiter20:13 enters → 22:26 leaves · 2 h 13 min
Night of Tue 20 Jun
- Ganymede crosses Jupiter19:46 enters → 22:59 leaves · 3 h 13 min
- Io in Jupiter's shadowdisappears unseen → 19:48 reappears · 2 h 14 min
Night of Wed 21 Jun
- Europa crosses Jupiter22:01 enters → 00:44 leaves · 2 h 44 min
Night of Fri 23 Jun
- Europa in Jupiter's shadowdisappears unseen → 21:22 reappears · 2 h 38 min
Night of Mon 26 Jun
- Io crosses Jupiter20:54 enters → 23:10 leaves · 2 h 16 min
- Io's shadow crosses Jupiter22:08 enters → 00:19 leaves · 2 h 11 min
Night of Tue 27 Jun
- Io in Jupiter's shadowdisappears unseen → 21:43 reappears · 2 h 14 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.