Conjunction of Venus and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Venus and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 4°39' to the north of Uranus.

From Columbus , the pair will become visible at around 21:15 (EDT), 26° above your western horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then sink towards the horizon, setting 3 hours and 35 minutes after the Sun at 23:43.

Venus will be at mag -4.5, and Uranus at mag 5.8, both in the constellation Taurus.

The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will 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 04h21m00s 26°05'N Taurus -4.5 31"1
Uranus 04h21m00s 21°25'N Taurus 5.8 3"5

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 43° from the Sun, which is in Pisces at this time of year.

The sky on 13 Apr 2028

The sky on 13 April 2028
Sunrise
06:54
Sunset
20:08
Twilight ends
21:44
Twilight begins
05:17


Waning Gibbous

70%

18 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:03 13:38 20:13
Venus 08:41 16:21 00:01
Moon 00:22 04:57 09:30
Mars 06:46 13:12 19:38
Jupiter 16:57 23:20 05:43
Saturn 07:21 13:55 20:30
All times shown in EDT.

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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