Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter

Dominic Ford, Editor
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The Moon and Jupiter will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 3°42' to the south of Jupiter. The Moon will be 25 days old.

At around the same time, the two objects will also make a close approach, technically called an appulse.

From Cambridge , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 01:51 (EST) – 3 hours and 16 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 31° above the eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 04:46.

The Moon will be at mag -11.1, and Jupiter at mag -2.2, both in the constellation Aries.

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 Jupiter 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 02h43m50s 11°01'N Aries -11.1 32'27"2
Jupiter 02h43m50s 14°43'N Aries -2.2 35"2

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 57° from the Sun, which is in Gemini at this time of year.

The sky on 1 Jul 2035

The sky on 1 July 2035
Sunrise
05:07
Sunset
20:24
Twilight ends
22:37
Twilight begins
02:53


Waning Crescent

17%

25 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 03:57 11:25 18:54
Venus 04:23 11:59 19:35
Moon 02:11 09:00 15:58
Mars 23:52 05:22 10:53
Jupiter 01:52 08:50 15:49
Saturn 07:14 14:34 21:53
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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