Conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
From the Conjunctions feed


Jupiter and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Jupiter passing 53' to the south of Uranus.

From South El Monte , the pair will be visible between 20:31 and 04:54. They will become accessible at around 20:31, when they rise to an altitude of 21° above your eastern horizon. They will reach their highest point in the sky at 00:43, 54° above your southern horizon. They will become inaccessible at around 04:54 when they sink below 21° above your western horizon.

Jupiter will be at mag -2.9, and Uranus at mag 5.7, both in the constellation Pisces.

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 Jupiter 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
Jupiter 23h55m20s 2°14'S Pisces -2.9 48"7
Uranus 23h55m20s 1°21'S Pisces 5.7 3"6

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 177° from the Sun, which is in Virgo at this time of year.

The sky on 10 Sep 2025

The sky on 10 September 2025
Sunrise
06:29
Sunset
19:05
Twilight ends
20:30
Twilight begins
05:04


Waning Gibbous

81%

18 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:18 12:41 19:03
Venus 04:11 10:58 17:45
Moon 20:18 02:55 09:42
Mars 09:13 14:52 20:32
Jupiter 01:48 08:55 16:02
Saturn 19:38 01:33 07:29
All times shown in PDT.

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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