Conjunction of Venus and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Venus and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 5'49" to the north 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 16° above the horizon at dusk.

Venus will be at mag -4.0, and Uranus at mag 5.9, both in the constellation 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 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 00h54m00s 5°12'N Pisces -4.0 12"2
Uranus 00h54m00s 5°06'N Pisces 5.9 3"3

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 30° from the Sun, which is in Aquarius at this time of year.

The sky on 28 Nov 2025

The sky on 28 November 2025
Sunrise
06:34
Sunset
16:42
Twilight ends
18:11
Twilight begins
05:06


Waxing Gibbous

61%

8 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:15 10:35 15:54
Venus 05:50 11:00 16:10
Moon 12:41 18:29 00:27
Mars 07:30 12:24 17:19
Jupiter 20:02 03:06 10:11
Saturn 13:12 19:03 00:55
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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