Conjunction of Venus and Haumea

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Venus and 136108 Haumea will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 7°58' to the south of 136108 Haumea.

From South El Monte however, the pair will not be observable – they will reach their highest point in the sky during daytime and will be no higher than 17° above the horizon at dusk.

Venus will be at mag -4.0, and 136108 Haumea at mag 16.3, both in the constellation Sagittarius.

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 19h20m20s 24°03'S Sagittarius -4.0 12"9
136108 Haumea 19h20m20s 16°04'S Sagittarius 16.3 0"0

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 34° from the Sun, which is in Ophiuchus at this time of year.

The sky on 10 May 2026

The sky on 10 May 2026
Sunrise
05:52
Sunset
19:42
Twilight ends
21:18
Twilight begins
04:16


Waning Crescent

35%

23 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:42 12:29 19:16
Venus 07:37 14:52 22:06
Moon 02:13 07:40 13:14
Mars 04:40 11:06 17:31
Jupiter 09:56 17:03 00:11
Saturn 04:09 10:17 16:25
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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