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 Mars

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Venus and Mars will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 6°34' to the north of Mars.

From Seattle , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 05:28 (PST) – 1 hour and 49 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 10° above the south-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 06:58.

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Venus will be at mag -4.6, and Mars at mag 1.3, both in the constellation Sagittarius.

The pair will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope or pair of binoculars, but will be visible to the naked eye.

A graph of the angular separation between Venus and Mars 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 19h01m00s 16°45'S Sagittarius -4.6 40"3
Mars 19h01m00s 23°20'S Sagittarius 1.3 4"4

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 39° from the Sun, which is in Capricornus at this time of year.

The sky on 12 Feb 2022

The sky on 12 February 2022
Sunrise
07:17
Sunset
17:27
Twilight ends
19:11
Twilight begins
05:33

11-day old moon
Waxing Gibbous

90%

11 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:05 10:37 15:09
Venus 04:52 09:38 14:25
Moon 13:11 21:41 06:08
Mars 05:27 09:38 13:49
Jupiter 07:59 13:24 18:48
Saturn 07:08 11:55 16:42
All times shown in PST.

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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