Conjunction of the Moon and Venus

Dominic Ford, Editor
From the Conjunctions feed


The Moon and Venus will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 3°51' to the south of Venus. The Moon will be 28 days old.

From Jacksonville however, the pair will not be observable – they will reach their highest point in the sky during daytime and will be no higher than 7° above the horizon at dawn.

The Moon will be at mag -8.9, and Venus at mag -3.9, 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 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 03h34m20s 14°14'N Taurus -8.9 33'10"5
Venus 03h34m20s 18°05'N Taurus -3.9 10"3

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 19° from the Sun, which is in Taurus at this time of year.

The sky on 4 Jun 2035

The sky on 4 June 2035
Sunrise
06:21
Sunset
20:24
Twilight ends
22:00
Twilight begins
04:45


Waning Crescent

1%

28 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:43 12:25 19:07
Venus 05:21 12:08 18:55
Moon 05:17 11:59 18:46
Mars 01:25 06:56 12:27
Jupiter 04:23 10:58 17:32
Saturn 09:56 16:49 23:42
All times shown in EDT.

Warning

Never attempt to point a pair of binoculars or a telescope at an object close to the Sun. Doing so may result in immediate and permanent blindness.

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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