Conjunction of Mars and Haumea

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Mars and 136108 Haumea will share the same right ascension, with Mars passing 5°24' to the south of 136108 Haumea.

From South El Monte , the pair will become visible at around 18:57 (PDT), 35° above your southern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then sink towards the horizon, setting at 23:07.

Mars will be at mag 0.3, and 136108 Haumea at mag 16.2, both in the constellation Sagittarius.

A graph of the angular separation between Mars 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
Mars 19h41m10s 23°24'S Sagittarius 0.3 7"7
136108 Haumea 19h41m10s 18°00'S Sagittarius 16.2 0"0

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 76° from the Sun, which is in Virgo at this time of year.

The sky on 14 Jun 2026

The sky on 14 June 2026
Sunrise
05:37
Sunset
20:04
Twilight ends
21:49
Twilight begins
03:52


Waning Crescent

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29 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:26 14:37 21:48
Venus 08:28 15:34 22:40
Moon 04:52 12:29 20:09
Mars 03:37 10:28 17:20
Jupiter 08:09 15:13 22:17
Saturn 02:00 08:11 14:22
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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