Conjunction of the Moon and Venus

Dominic Ford, Editor
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The Moon and Venus will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 2°17' to the south of Venus. The Moon will be 1 days old.

From Cambridge , the pair will become visible at around 20:42 (EDT), 11° above your western horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then sink towards the horizon, setting 1 hour and 35 minutes after the Sun at 21:56.

The Moon will be at mag -9.0, and Venus at mag -3.9, both in the constellation Gemini.

The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.

A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Venus 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
The Moon 07h02m10s 21°43'N Gemini -9.0 30'50"1
Venus 07h02m10s 24°00'N Gemini -3.9 10"6

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 21° from the Sun, which is in Taurus at this time of year.

The sky on 13 Jun 2029

The sky on 13 June 2029
Sunrise
05:04
Sunset
20:21
Twilight ends
22:36
Twilight begins
02:49


Waxing Crescent

5%

1 day old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 03:59 11:07 18:16
Venus 06:35 14:15 21:55
Moon 06:15 14:03 21:45
Mars 13:22 19:23 01:24
Jupiter 14:36 20:19 02:02
Saturn 03:22 10:24 17:26
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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