The Moon and Saturn will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 6°47' to the north of Saturn. The Moon will be 13 days old.
At around the same time, the two objects will also make a close approach, technically called an appulse.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible between 17:09 and 05:21. They will become accessible at around 17:09, when they rise to an altitude of 9° above your eastern horizon. They will reach their highest point in the sky at 23:15, 74° above your southern horizon. They will become inaccessible at around 05:21 when they sink below 9° above your western horizon.
The Moon will be at mag -12.8, and Saturn at mag -0.4, both in the constellation Taurus.
The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope or pair of binoculars, but will be visible to the naked eye.
A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Saturn around the time of closest approach is available here.
The positions of the two objects at the moment of conjunction will be as follows:
| Object | Right Ascension | Declination | Constellation | Magnitude | Angular Size |
| The Moon | 04h05m10s | 25°26'N | Taurus | -12.8 | 32'50"8 |
| Saturn | 04h05m10s | 18°38'N | Taurus | -0.4 | 20"5 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 173° from the Sun, which is in Ophiuchus at this time of year.
The sky on 13 Dec 2025
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All times shown in PST.
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Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.
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Image credit
The Moon in conjunction with Venus and Jupiter, with the Very Large Telescope in the foreground. Image © Y. Beletsky, ESO, 2009.