Conjunction of Saturn and Haumea

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Saturn and 136108 Haumea will share the same right ascension, with Saturn passing 7°31' to the north of 136108 Haumea.

From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the morning sky, becoming accessible around 01:21, when they reach an altitude of 21° above your south-eastern horizon. They will then reach their highest point in the sky at 03:56, 32° above your southern horizon. They will be lost to dawn twilight around 04:24, 32° above your southern horizon.

Saturn will be at mag 0.4, and 136108 Haumea at mag 15.9, both in the constellation Capricornus.

A graph of the angular separation between Saturn 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
Saturn 21h33m00s 15°39'S Capricornus 0.4 18"2
136108 Haumea 21h33m00s 23°11'S Capricornus 15.9 0"0

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 135° from the Sun, which is in Gemini at this time of year.

The sky on 29 Jun 2026

The sky on 29 June 2026
Sunrise
05:40
Sunset
20:07
Twilight ends
21:51
Twilight begins
03:56


Waning Gibbous

99%

14 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:13 14:10 21:06
Venus 08:55 15:45 22:36
Moon 19:40 00:21 05:02
Mars 03:14 10:13 17:13
Jupiter 07:25 14:27 21:29
Saturn 01:04 07:15 13:27
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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