Conjunction of Mars and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
From the Conjunctions feed


Mars and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Mars passing 44' to the south of Uranus.

At around the same time, the two objects will also make a close approach, technically called an appulse.

From South El Monte however, the pair will not be observable – they will reach their highest point in the sky during daytime and will be no higher than 12° above the horizon at dawn.

Mars will be at mag 1.0, and Uranus at mag 5.9, both in the constellation Aquarius.

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 Mars 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
Mars 23h14m40s 6°24'S Aquarius 1.0 5"2
Uranus 23h14m40s 5°40'S Aquarius 5.9 3"4

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 50° from the Sun, which is in Aries at this time of year.

The sky on 10 Nov 2025

The sky on 10 November 2025
Sunrise
06:17
Sunset
16:51
Twilight ends
18:17
Twilight begins
04:51


Waning Gibbous

62%

20 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:53 12:47 17:42
Venus 05:11 10:42 16:12
Moon 21:02 04:30 11:50
Mars 07:38 12:39 17:40
Jupiter 21:15 04:19 11:23
Saturn 14:24 20:15 02:07
All times shown in PST.

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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