The Moon and Saturn will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 7°07' to the north of Saturn. The Moon will be 19 days old.
From Cambridge , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 23:45 (EDT) and reaching an altitude of 37° above the southern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 04:24.
The Moon will be at mag -12.2 in the constellation Pisces, and Saturn at mag 0.7 in the neighbouring constellation of Aquarius.
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 | 22h58m00s | 1°25'S | Pisces | -12.2 | 30'20"6 |
| Saturn | 22h58m00s | 8°32'S | Aquarius | 0.7 | 17"9 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 111° from the Sun, which is in Gemini at this time of year.
The sky on 10 May 2025
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All times shown in EDT.
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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.