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Saturn's moons in February 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 · February 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

28 events you can see from New Delhi this month, on 16 nights

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behind the planetin its shadowcrossing its faceshadow on the planet

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 Tue 1 Feb

  1. Mimas crosses Saturn
    21:12 enters → 22:37 leaves · 1 h 24 min
    Saturn 27° up · dark sky
  2. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    21:51 enters → 22:39 leaves · 48 min
    Saturn 18° up · dark sky

Night of Wed 2 Feb

  1. Mimas crosses Saturn
    19:50 enters → 21:14 leaves · 1 h 24 min
    Saturn 43° up · dark sky
  2. Enceladus behind Saturn
    20:22 disappears → 21:16 reappears · 54 min
    Saturn 37° up · dark sky
  3. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    20:30 enters → 21:16 leaves · 46 min
    Saturn 35° up · dark sky

Night of Thu 3 Feb

  1. Mimas crosses Saturn
    18:28 enters → 19:51 leaves · 1 h 23 min
    Saturn 59° up · dusk
  2. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    19:06 enters → 19:53 leaves · 47 min
    Saturn 52° up · dark sky

Night of Fri 4 Feb

  1. Mimas crosses Saturn
    17:05 enters → 18:28 leaves · 1 h 23 min
    Saturn 68° up · daylight
  2. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    17:44 enters → 18:31 leaves · 47 min
    Saturn 64° up · daylight
  3. Enceladus crosses Saturn
    21:39 enters → 22:33 leaves · 54 min
    Saturn 18° up · dark sky

Night of Wed 9 Feb

  1. Mimas behind Saturn
    21:50 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 21 min
    Saturn 12° up · dark sky

Night of Thu 10 Feb

  1. Mimas behind Saturn
    20:28 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 20 min
    Saturn 29° up · dark sky
  2. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    disappears unseen → 21:50 reappears · 45 min
    Saturn 11° up · dark sky

Night of Fri 11 Feb

  1. Enceladus crosses Saturn
    18:13 enters → 18:58 leaves · 46 min
    Saturn 56° up · twilight
  2. Mimas behind Saturn
    19:06 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 20 min
    Saturn 46° up · dark sky
  3. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    disappears unseen → 20:27 reappears · 45 min
    Saturn 29° up · dark sky

Night of Sat 12 Feb

  1. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    disappears unseen → 19:05 reappears · 44 min
    Saturn 45° up · dark sky

Night of Sun 13 Feb

  1. Enceladus behind Saturn
    19:40 disappears → 20:18 reappears · 38 min
    Saturn 37° up · dark sky

Night of Tue 15 Feb

  1. Enceladus crosses Saturn
    20:58 enters → 21:36 leaves · 39 min
    Saturn 19° up · dark sky

Night of Fri 18 Feb

  1. Mimas crosses Saturn
    20:31 enters → 21:47 leaves · 1 h 16 min
    Saturn 22° up · dark sky
  2. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    21:06 enters → 21:49 leaves · 43 min
    Saturn 15° up · dark sky

Night of Sat 19 Feb

  1. Mimas crosses Saturn
    19:09 enters → 20:25 leaves · 1 h 16 min
    Saturn 39° up · dark sky
  2. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    19:43 enters → 20:26 leaves · 43 min
    Saturn 32° up · dark sky

Night of Sun 20 Feb

  1. Mimas crosses Saturn
    17:47 enters → 19:02 leaves · 1 h 15 min
    Saturn 55° up · daylight
  2. Mimas's shadow crosses Saturn
    18:22 enters → 19:03 leaves · 41 min
    Saturn 48° up · twilight

Night of Sat 26 Feb

  1. Enceladus crosses Saturn
    20:25 enters → 20:32 leaves · 7 min
    Saturn 18° up · dark sky

Night of Sun 27 Feb

  1. Mimas behind Saturn
    19:48 disappears → reappears unseen · 1 h 10 min
    Saturn 25° up · dark sky

Night of Mon 28 Feb

  1. Mimas in Saturn's shadow
    disappears unseen → 19:36 reappears · 37 min
    Saturn 27° 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.