The Moon and Saturn will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 7°52' to the north of Saturn. The Moon will be 2 days old.
From South El Monte , the pair will become visible at around 18:15 (PDT), 16° above your western horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then sink towards the horizon, setting 1 hour and 57 minutes after the Sun at 19:37.
The Moon will be at mag -9.7, and Saturn at mag 0.9, both in the constellation Pisces.
The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope or pair of binoculars, but will be visible to the naked eye.
A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Saturn 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 | 00h11m40s | 6°48'N | Pisces | -9.7 | 32'34"3 |
| Saturn | 00h11m40s | 1°04'S | Pisces | 0.9 | 16"0 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 28° from the Sun, which is in Aquarius at this time of year.
The sky on 4 May 2026
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All times shown in PDT.
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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.