Conjunction of Venus and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Venus and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 55' to the south of Uranus.

From Fairfield however, the pair will not be readily observable since they will be very close to the Sun, at a separation of only 18° from it.

Venus will be at mag -3.9, and Uranus at mag 5.9, both in the constellation Capricornus.

The pair will be a little too widely separated to fit comfortably 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 20h57m10s 18°49'S Capricornus -3.9 10"4
Uranus 20h57m10s 17°53'S Capricornus 5.9 3"3

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 18° from the Sun, which is in Sagittarius at this time of year.

The sky on 29 Jun 2024

The sky on 29 June 2024
Sunrise
05:20
Sunset
20:29
Twilight ends
22:37
Twilight begins
03:12


Waning Crescent

36%

23 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:36 14:07 21:38
Venus 05:52 13:24 20:57
Moon 00:47 07:15 13:57
Mars 02:11 09:10 16:09
Jupiter 03:22 10:44 18:05
Saturn 00:02 05:44 11:25
All times shown in EDT.

Warning

Never attempt to point a pair of binoculars or a telescope at an object close to the Sun. Doing so may result in immediate and permanent blindness.

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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