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

The Great Conjunction of 2020

Dominic Ford, Editor
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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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The sky on 21 Oct 2020

The sky on 21 October 2020
Sunrise
07:00
Sunset
18:10
Twilight ends
19:34
Twilight begins
05:36

4-day old moon
Waxing Crescent

30%

4 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:47 13:06 18:24
Venus 04:08 10:22 16:37
Moon 12:38 17:32 22:25
Mars 17:47 00:03 06:19
Jupiter 13:14 18:12 23:11
Saturn 13:36 18:38 23:40
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.

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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