The Moon and Collinder 50 will make a close approach, passing within a mere 55.4 arcminutes of each other. The Moon will be 15 days old.
From Columbus , the pair will be visible between 18:49 and 06:30. They will become accessible at around 18:49, when they rise to an altitude of 11° above your eastern horizon. They will reach their highest point in the sky at 00:39, 66° above your southern horizon. They will become inaccessible at around 06:30 when they sink below 11° above your western horizon.
The Moon will be at mag -12.8; and Collinder 50 will be at mag 1.0. Both objects will lie in the constellation Taurus.
They will be a little too widely separated to fit comfortably within the field of view of a telescope, but will be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.
A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Collinder 50 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 | 04h26m30s | 16°54'N | Taurus | -12.8 | 32'31"5 |
| Collinder 50 | 04h27m00s | 16°00'N | Taurus | 1.0 | 0"0 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 173° from the Sun, which is in Scorpius at this time of year.
The sky on 25 Nov 2024
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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.
Image credit
The Moon in conjunction with Venus and Jupiter, with the Very Large Telescope in the foreground. Image © Y. Beletsky, ESO, 2009.