Saturn's moons in July 2027
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'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
36 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 Thu 1 Jul
- Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn00:16 enters → 02:07 leaves · 1 h 51 min
- Mimas crosses Saturn00:45 enters → 02:19 leaves · 1 h 34 min
Night of Sat 3 Jul
- Enceladus in Saturn's shadow01:57 disappears → 03:14 reappears · 1 h 17 min
Night of Mon 5 Jul
- Enceladus's shadow crosses Saturn03:12 enters → 04:28 leaves · 1 h 16 min
Night of Tue 6 Jul
- Mimas in Saturn's shadow04:25 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 53 min
Night of Wed 7 Jul
- Mimas in Saturn's shadow03:02 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 53 min
- Enceladus in Saturn's shadow04:38 disappears → 05:53 reappears · 1 h 16 min
Night of Thu 8 Jul
- Mimas in Saturn's shadow01:39 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 53 min
- Mimas behind Saturndisappears unseen → 03:44 reappears · 1 h 33 min
Night of Fri 9 Jul
- Mimas behind Saturndisappears unseen → 02:22 reappears · 1 h 33 min
Night of Wed 14 Jul
- Enceladus in Saturn's shadow01:05 disappears → 02:18 reappears · 1 h 13 min
- Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn04:56 enters → 06:47 leaves · 1 h 51 min
Night of Thu 15 Jul
- Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn03:34 enters → 05:24 leaves · 1 h 50 min
- Mimas crosses Saturn04:03 enters → 05:37 leaves · 1 h 34 min
Night of Fri 16 Jul
- Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn02:10 enters → 04:02 leaves · 1 h 52 min
- Enceladus's shadow crosses Saturn02:21 enters → 03:32 leaves · 1 h 11 min
- Mimas crosses Saturn02:40 enters → 04:14 leaves · 1 h 34 min
Night of Sat 17 Jul
- Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn00:47 enters → 02:39 leaves · 1 h 52 min
- Mimas crosses Saturn01:17 enters → 02:52 leaves · 1 h 34 min
Night of Sun 18 Jul
- Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn23:24 enters → 01:16 leaves · 1 h 52 min
- Mimas crosses Saturn23:54 enters → 01:29 leaves · 1 h 35 min
- Enceladus in Saturn's shadow03:45 disappears → 04:57 reappears · 1 h 12 min
Night of Tue 20 Jul
- Enceladus's shadow crosses Saturn05:02 enters → 06:10 leaves · 1 h 09 min
Night of Thu 22 Jul
- Mimas in Saturn's shadow04:54 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 53 min
Night of Fri 23 Jul
- Mimas in Saturn's shadow03:31 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 53 min
Night of Sat 24 Jul
- Mimas in Saturn's shadow02:08 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 53 min
- Mimas behind Saturndisappears unseen → 04:14 reappears · 1 h 34 min
Night of Sun 25 Jul
- Enceladus in Saturn's shadow00:12 disappears → 01:21 reappears · 1 h 09 min
- Mimas in Saturn's shadow00:45 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 53 min
- Mimas behind Saturndisappears unseen → 02:51 reappears · 1 h 34 min
Night of Mon 26 Jul
- Mimas behind Saturndisappears unseen → 01:28 reappears · 1 h 34 min
Night of Tue 27 Jul
- Enceladus's shadow crosses Saturn01:27 enters → 02:35 leaves · 1 h 08 min
Night of Thu 29 Jul
- Enceladus in Saturn's shadow02:52 disappears → 04:00 reappears · 1 h 08 min
Night of Sat 31 Jul
- Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn04:03 enters → 05:55 leaves · 1 h 52 min
- Enceladus's shadow crosses Saturn04:07 enters → 05:14 leaves · 1 h 07 min
- Mimas crosses Saturn04:33 enters → 06:08 leaves · 1 h 35 min
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.