1 Ceres and 136108 Haumea will share the same right ascension, with 1 Ceres passing 7°04' to the north of 136108 Haumea.

From South El Monte , the pair will be visible between 19:50 and 00:31. They will become accessible at around 19:50, when they rise to an altitude of 21° above your south-eastern horizon. They will reach their highest point in the sky at 22:11, 30° above your southern horizon. They will become inaccessible at around 00:31 when they sink below 21° above your south-western horizon.

1 Ceres will be at mag 8.2 in the constellation Aquarius, and 136108 Haumea at mag 15.7 in the neighbouring constellation of Sculptor.

A graph of the angular separation between 1 Ceres 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:

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

The sky on 8 Jul 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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