Nakshatra calculator
Your janma nakṣatra (birth star) is where the Moon stood at your birth — one of 27 asterisms, each divided into four padas. Enter your birth details; the answer is computed from live ephemeris positions, exactly as in a full AstroAmrit chart.
Common questions
What is a janma nakṣatra?
The asterism (one of 27, each spanning 13°20′ of the zodiac) occupied by the Moon at the moment of birth. It anchors the Vimśottarī daśā sequence and the traditional name-syllable, gaṇa and nāḍī attributes.
Why does the birth time matter so much?
The Moon moves about 13° a day — its own nakṣatra width. A few hours can shift the pada, and a day shifts the nakṣatra itself, which is why this tool computes from the exact instant rather than a date-only lookup table.
Which ayanāṁśa does this use?
Lahiri (Chitrapakṣa), the reckoning most Indian panchāṅgas use. The method line below states it explicitly, so a difference from another tool is traceable to convention, never mystery.
Where do these fall in your chart? AstroAmrit maps every sky event onto your own birth chart — which house it touches, which of your planets it meets — with every claim cited to the computation behind it.
See these in your chart →How this table was computed
AstroAmrit is a glass box: every number on this page is reproducible from the stated method. These are astronomical facts, not predictions. Times are instants of the event's global maximum or exact crossing; your local civil date can differ by one day depending on timezone.