Conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Jupiter and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Jupiter passing 22' to the south of Uranus.

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

From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 02:11 (PDT) and reaching an altitude of 38° above the eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:27.

Jupiter will be at mag -2.0, and Uranus at mag 5.6, both in the constellation Gemini.

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 Jupiter 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
Jupiter 07h37m40s 21°36'N Gemini -2.0 33"6
Uranus 07h37m40s 21°59'N Gemini 5.6 3"6

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 53° from the Sun, which is in Leo at this time of year.

The sky on 16 Jun 2025

The sky on 16 June 2025
Sunrise
05:37
Sunset
20:05
Twilight ends
21:50
Twilight begins
03:52


Waning Gibbous

67%

20 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:58 14:14 21:29
Venus 03:09 09:46 16:23
Moon 23:48 05:09 10:37
Mars 10:39 17:17 23:55
Jupiter 06:05 13:16 20:26
Saturn 01:20 07:18 13:17
All times shown in PDT.

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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