Conjunction of Venus and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Venus and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 3°16' to the north of Uranus.

From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 03:35 (PDT) – 3 hours and 20 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 23° above the south-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:51.

Venus will be at mag -4.6, and Uranus at mag 5.6, both in the constellation Libra.

The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will be visible through a pair of binoculars.

A graph of the angular separation between Venus and Uranus 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
Venus 15h09m00s 14°03'S Libra -4.6 34"2
Uranus 15h09m00s 17°19'S Libra 5.6 3"6

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 44° from the Sun, which is in Sagittarius at this time of year.

The sky on 2 Sep 2025

The sky on 2 September 2025
Sunrise
06:23
Sunset
19:16
Twilight ends
20:42
Twilight begins
04:57


Waxing Gibbous

75%

10 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:35 12:14 18:53
Venus 03:56 10:51 17:45
Moon 16:20 21:01 01:45
Mars 09:19 15:04 20:50
Jupiter 02:13 09:21 16:28
Saturn 20:11 02:07 08:03
All times shown in PDT.

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.

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