Conjunction of Mars and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Mars and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Mars passing 4'24" to the north of Uranus.

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 16° above the horizon at dusk.

Mars will be at mag 1.2, and Uranus at mag 5.9, both in the constellation Pisces.

The pair will be close enough to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will also be visible through a pair of binoculars.

A graph of the angular separation between Mars and Uranus 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
Mars 23h41m10s 2°44'S Pisces 1.2 4"3
Uranus 23h41m10s 2°48'S Pisces 5.9 3"3

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 31° from the Sun, which is in Capricornus at this time of year.

The sky on 13 Jun 2026

The sky on 13 June 2026
Sunrise
05:37
Sunset
20:03
Twilight ends
21:48
Twilight begins
03:52


Waning Crescent

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28 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:24 14:36 21:48
Venus 08:26 15:33 22:40
Moon 03:57 11:23 18:56
Mars 03:39 10:29 17:20
Jupiter 08:12 15:16 22:20
Saturn 02:04 08:15 14:26
All times shown in PDT.

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.

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