The Moon and Uranus will make a close approach, passing within a mere 58.9 arcminutes of each other. The Moon will be 4 days old.
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 15° above the horizon at dusk.
The Moon will be at mag -10.4; and Uranus will be at mag 5.5. Both objects will lie in the constellation Leo.
They will be a little too widely separated to fit comfortably within the field of view of a telescope, but will be visible through a pair of binoculars.
A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Uranus around the time of closest approach is available here.
The positions of the pair at the moment of closest approach will be as follows:
| Object | Right Ascension | Declination | Constellation | Magnitude | Angular Size |
| The Moon | 10h04m50s | 13°36'N | Leo | -10.4 | 29'49"8 |
| Uranus | 10h03m50s | 12°39'N | Leo | 5.5 | 3"7 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 44° from the Sun, which is in Gemini at this time of year.
The sky on 6 Oct 2025
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All times shown in PDT.
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Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 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.