Conjunction of Mars and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
From the Conjunctions feed


Mars and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Mars passing 28' to the south of Uranus.

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 2° above the horizon at dawn.

Mars will be at mag 1.2 in the constellation Aquarius, and Uranus at mag 5.9 in the neighbouring constellation of Pisces.

The pair will be close enough to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will also 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 23h40m10s 3°24'S Aquarius 1.2 4"3
Uranus 23h40m10s 2°56'S Pisces 5.9 3"3

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 31° from the Sun, which is in Pisces at this time of year.

The sky on 6 Nov 2025

The sky on 6 November 2025
Sunrise
06:14
Sunset
16:54
Twilight ends
18:19
Twilight begins
04:48


Waning Gibbous

96%

16 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 08:07 13:00 17:54
Venus 05:03 10:38 16:14
Moon 16:57 00:14 07:41
Mars 07:39 12:43 17:46
Jupiter 21:30 04:35 11:39
Saturn 14:40 20:31 02:23
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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