Venus and 136108 Haumea will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 9°26' to the south of 136108 Haumea.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 03:21 (PDT) – 3 hours and 20 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 25° above the south-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:40.
Venus will be at mag -4.6 in the constellation Sagittarius, and 136108 Haumea at mag 16.5 in the neighbouring constellation of Serpens Cauda.
A graph of the angular separation between Venus and 136108 Haumea 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 |
| Venus | 18h13m10s | 18°21'S | Sagittarius | -4.6 | 34"4 |
| 136108 Haumea | 18h13m10s | 8°54'S | Serpens Cauda | 16.5 | 0"0 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 43° from the Sun, which is in Capricornus at this time of year.
The sky on 27 Jun 2026
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Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE440 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.