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

Conjunction of Mars and Ceres

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Mars and 1 Ceres will share the same right ascension, with Mars passing 7°30' to the south of 1 Ceres.

From South El Monte , the pair will become visible at around 21:09 (PDT), 37° above your south-western horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then sink towards the horizon, setting at 00:26.

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Mars will be at mag 0.3, and 1 Ceres at mag 8.6, both in the constellation Virgo.

A graph of the angular separation between Mars and 1 Ceres 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
Mars 13h41m00s 11°25'S Virgo 0.3 8"3
1 Ceres 13h41m00s 3°54'S Virgo 8.6 0"0

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 88° from the Sun, which is in Cancer at this time of year.

The sky on 1 Jul 2025

The sky on 1 July 2025
Sunrise
05:41
Sunset
20:07
Twilight ends
21:51
Twilight begins
03:57

6-day old moon
Waxing Crescent

41%

6 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:46 14:43 21:41
Venus 03:01 09:51 16:41
Moon 12:09 18:15 00:12
Mars 10:21 16:50 23:19
Jupiter 05:21 12:31 19:42
Saturn 00:22 06:21 12:20
All times shown in PDT.

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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