Saturn and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Saturn passing 20' to the south of Uranus.

At around the same time, the two objects will also make a close approach, technically called an appulse.

From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the evening sky, becoming accessible around 18:22 (PDT), 35° above your eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then reach their highest point in the sky at 22:26, 77° above your southern horizon. They will continue to be observable until around 03:41, when they sink below 20° above your western horizon.

Saturn will be at mag -0.3, and Uranus at mag 5.4, both in the constellation Gemini.

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 Saturn 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:

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 157° from the Sun, which is in Capricornus at this time of year.

The sky on 23 Aug 2026

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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