Saturn and Mars will share the same right ascension, with Saturn passing 4°24' to the south of Mars.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the evening sky, becoming accessible around 17:36 (PDT), 62° above your south-eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then reach their highest point in the sky at 19:21, 75° above your southern horizon. They will continue to be observable until around 01:27, when they sink below 9° above your western horizon.
Saturn will be at mag -0.3, and Mars at mag -0.2, both in the constellation Taurus.
The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.
A graph of the angular separation between Saturn and Mars 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 | 04h12m00s | 19°18'N | Taurus | -0.3 | 19"3 |
| Mars | 04h12m00s | 23°42'N | Taurus | -0.2 | 10"5 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 115° from the Sun, which is in Capricornus at this time of year.
The sky on 26 Jul 2026
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All times shown in PDT.
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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.