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 Jupiter

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Venus and Jupiter will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 14' to the south of Jupiter.

At around the same time, the two objects will also make a close approach, technically called an appulse.

From San Diego , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 04:09 (PDT) – 1 hour and 51 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 18° above the eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:44.

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Venus will be at mag -4.1, and Jupiter at mag -2.1, both in the constellation Pisces.

The pair will be close enough to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will also be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.

A graph of the angular separation between Venus and Jupiter 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 23h53m00s 2°10'S Pisces -4.1 16"7
Jupiter 23h53m00s 1°55'S Pisces -2.1 34"0

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 42° from the Sun, which is in Aries at this time of year.

The sky on 30 Apr 2022

The sky on 30 April 2022
Sunrise
06:00
Sunset
19:29
Twilight ends
20:59
Twilight begins
04:30

29-day old moon
Waxing Crescent

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29 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:58 14:04 21:10
Venus 04:10 10:07 16:04
Moon 05:59 12:44 19:37
Mars 03:28 09:08 14:48
Jupiter 04:09 10:07 16:04
Saturn 02:36 08:00 13:25
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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