Venus and Jupiter will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 5°55' to the south of Jupiter.
From South El Monte , the pair will become visible at around 18:17 (PDT), 18° above your south-western horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then sink towards the horizon, setting 2 hours and 8 minutes after the Sun at 20:09.
Venus will be at mag -4.6 in the constellation Scorpius, and Jupiter at mag -1.8 in the neighbouring constellation of Ophiuchus.
The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope or pair of binoculars, but will be visible to the naked eye.
A graph of the angular separation between Venus and Jupiter 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 |
| Venus | 16h29m30s | 27°15'S | Scorpius | -4.6 | 39"3 |
| Jupiter | 16h29m30s | 21°19'S | Ophiuchus | -1.8 | 31"8 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 40° from the Sun, which is in Virgo 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.