Venus and 134340 Pluto will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 6°12' to the south of 134340 Pluto.
From Krabi , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 03:26 (GMT+07) – 3 hours and 17 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 33° above the eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:51.
Venus will be at mag -4.3, and 134340 Pluto at mag 14.6, both in the constellation Ophiuchus.
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 | 17h16m00s | 20°00'S | Ophiuchus | -4.3 | 21"1 |
| 134340 Pluto | 17h16m00s | 13°48'S | Ophiuchus | 14.6 | 0"0 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 46° from the Sun, which is in Capricornus at this time of year.
The sky on 17 Aug 2025
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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.