The Moon and Venus will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 3°48' to the north of Venus. The Moon will be 2 days old.
From South El Monte , the pair will become visible at around 20:20 (PST), 10° above your western horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then sink towards the horizon, setting 1 hour and 20 minutes after the Sun at 21:23.
The Moon will be at mag -8.6 in the constellation Auriga, and Venus at mag -3.9 in the neighbouring constellation of Gemini.
The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.
A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Venus 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 | 06h25m40s | 28°11'N | Auriga | -8.6 | 29'41"9 |
| Venus | 06h25m40s | 24°23'N | Gemini | -3.9 | 10"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 Taurus at this time of year.
The sky on 14 Feb 2026
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3% 27 days old |
All times shown in PST.
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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.