Saturn and 136199 Eris will share the same right ascension, with Saturn passing 6°04' to the south of 136199 Eris.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the evening sky, becoming accessible around 17:42 (PDT), 33° above your eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then reach their highest point in the sky at 21:44, 73° above your southern horizon. They will continue to be observable until around 02:44, when they sink below 21° above your western horizon.
Saturn will be at mag -0.1, and 136199 Eris at mag 18.2, both in the constellation Aries.
A graph of the angular separation between Saturn 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 |
| Saturn | 02h22m00s | 11°20'N | Aries | -0.1 | 19"9 |
| 136199 Eris | 02h22m00s | 17°24'N | Aries | 18.2 | 0"0 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 151° from the Sun, which is in Scorpius at this time of year.
The sky on 5 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.