Venus and 134340 Pluto will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 4°43' to the north of 134340 Pluto.
From South El Monte however, the pair will not be observable – they will reach their highest point in the sky during daytime and will be no higher than 21° above the horizon at dawn.
Venus will be at mag -4.1, and 134340 Pluto at mag 16.2, 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 through a pair of binoculars.
A graph of the angular separation between Venus and 134340 Pluto 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 | 05h48m30s | 21°04'N | Taurus | -4.1 | 17"6 |
| 134340 Pluto | 05h48m30s | 16°21'N | Taurus | 16.2 | 0"0 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 43° from the Sun, which is in Cancer at this time of year.
The sky on 30 Jul 2026
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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.