The Moon in conjunction with Venus and Jupiter, with the Very Large Telescope in the foreground. Image © Y. Beletsky, ESO, 2009.

Conjunction of Venus and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Venus and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 52' to the north of Uranus.

From South El Monte however, the pair will not be readily observable since they will be very close to the Sun, at a separation of only 14° from it.

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Venus will be at mag -3.9, and Uranus at mag 5.6, both in the constellation Libra.

The pair 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 Venus and Uranus 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 14h44m10s 14°36'S Libra -3.9 10"2
Uranus 14h44m10s 15°29'S Libra 5.6 3"6

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 15° from the Sun, which is in Libra at this time of year.

The sky on 4 Sep 2025

The sky on 4 September 2025
Sunrise
06:25
Sunset
19:13
Twilight ends
20:39
Twilight begins
04:58

12-day old moon
Waxing Gibbous

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12 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:46 12:21 18:56
Venus 04:00 10:52 17:45
Moon 17:45 22:48 03:57
Mars 09:17 15:01 20:45
Jupiter 02:07 09:14 16:21
Saturn 20:03 01:58 07:54
All times shown in PDT.

Warning

Never attempt to point a pair of binoculars or a telescope at an object close to the Sun. Doing so may result in immediate and permanent blindness.

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.

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