The Moon and Venus will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 24' to the north of Venus. The Moon will be 2 days old.
At around the same time, the two objects will also make a close approach, technically called an appulse.
From Jacksonville , the pair will be difficult to observe as they will appear no higher than 9° above the horizon. They will become visible at around 17:37 (EDT), 9° above your south-western horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then sink towards the horizon, setting 1 hour and 10 minutes after the Sun at 18:31.
The Moon will be at mag -8.6, and Venus at mag -3.9, both in the constellation Sagittarius.
The pair will be close enough to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will also be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.
A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Venus 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 | 18h15m10s | 23°58'S | Sagittarius | -8.6 | 31'45"7 |
| Venus | 18h15m10s | 24°23'S | Sagittarius | -3.9 | 10"3 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 17° from the Sun, which is in Ophiuchus at this time of year.
The sky on 23 Apr 2025
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16% 25 days old |
All times shown in EDT.
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Warning
Never attempt to point a pair of binoculars or a telescope at an object close to the Sun. Doing so may result in immediate and permanent blindness.
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.