Uranus and 1 Ceres will share the same right ascension, with Uranus passing 2°38' to the north of 1 Ceres.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible between 21:30 and 01:57. They will become accessible at around 21:30, when they rise to an altitude of 21° above your south-eastern horizon. They will reach their highest point in the sky at 23:43, 29° above your southern horizon. They will become inaccessible at around 01:57 when they sink below 21° above your south-western horizon.
Uranus will be at mag 5.5, and 1 Ceres at mag 7.5, both in the constellation Ophiuchus.
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 Uranus and 1 Ceres 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 |
| Uranus | 17h34m50s | 23°28'S | Ophiuchus | 5.5 | 3"8 |
| 1 Ceres | 17h34m50s | 26°06'S | Ophiuchus | 7.5 | 0"0 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 163° from the Sun, which is in Gemini at this time of year.
The sky on 16 Dec 2025
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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.