Planetary transits
Next transits (sidereal, Lahiri): Sun enters Tulā on 17 October at 19:52 IST; Mercury turns retrograde in Tulā on 24 October at 12:43 IST; Jupiter enters Siṃha on 31 October at 12:02 IST.
Swiss Ephemeris · sidereal · Lahiri · IST
| Graha | Event | Date | Time (IST) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | enters Tulā | 17 October | 19:52 |
| Mercury | turns retrograde in Tulā | 24 October | 12:43 |
| Jupiter | enters Siṃha | 31 October | 12:02 |
| Venus | enters Kanyā (moving retrograde) | 6 November | 01:04 |
| Mars | enters Siṃha | 12 November | 20:19 |
| Mercury | turns direct in Tulā | 13 November | 21:24 |
| Venus | turns direct in Kanyā | 14 November | 05:58 |
| Sun | enters Vṛścika | 16 November | 19:43 |
| Venus | enters Tulā | 22 November | 17:21 |
| Mercury | enters Vṛścika | 2 December | 17:27 |
| Rahu | enters Makara (moving retrograde) | 5 December | 22:32 |
| Ketu | enters Karka (moving retrograde) | 5 December | 22:32 |
| Saturn | turns direct in Mīna | 11 December | 05:30 |
| Jupiter | turns retrograde in Siṃha | 13 December | 06:18 |
Almanacs use slightly different values of the Lahiri ayanāṁśa. Drik Panchang's is about 18″ larger than the Swiss Ephemeris definition used here, so its time for the same event comes later: by 4–6 minutes for each of the Sun's twelve saṅkrāntis of 2026, and by 35 and 48 minutes for Jupiter's two ingresses that year. The date was the same in every case we checked. A slow graha moves so little in an hour that a few arcseconds of convention become many minutes — which is why the method is published next to every time. Stations are flat in the same way: around a retrograde or direct station a slow graha sits almost still for hours, so almanacs can differ by up to an hour on Saturn's (for Mercury we agree with Drik to within 2 minutes). Ours is the instant the apparent geocentric motion reverses.