The Moon and Mars will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 4°29' to the north of Mars. The Moon will be 27 days old.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 03:11 (PDT) – 2 hours and 45 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 22° above the eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:12.
The Moon will be at mag -9.9 in the constellation Auriga, and Mars at mag 1.5 in the neighbouring constellation of Gemini.
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 the Moon 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 |
| The Moon | 06h32m40s | 28°15'N | Auriga | -9.9 | 29'43"2 |
| Mars | 06h32m40s | 23°46'N | Gemini | 1.5 | 4"1 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 34° from the Sun, which is in Cancer at this time of year.
The sky on 28 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.