1 Ceres and 136199 Eris will share the same right ascension, with 1 Ceres passing 5°14' to the south of 136199 Eris.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible between 20:10 and 04:54. They will become accessible at around 20:10, when they rise to an altitude of 21° above your eastern horizon. They will reach their highest point in the sky at 00:32, 59° above your southern horizon. They will become inaccessible at around 04:54 when they sink below 21° above your western horizon.
1 Ceres will be at mag 7.5 in the constellation Cetus, and 136199 Eris at mag 18.5 in the neighbouring constellation of Pisces.
A graph of the angular separation between 1 Ceres and 136199 Eris 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 |
| 1 Ceres | 01h54m30s | 1°51'S | Cetus | 7.5 | 0"0 |
| 136199 Eris | 01h54m30s | 3°22'N | Pisces | 18.5 | 0"0 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 165° from the Sun, which is in Virgo at this time of year.
The sky on 21 Dec 2025
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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.