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

Conjunction of Mercury and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Mercury and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Mercury passing 1°21' to the south of Uranus.

From San Diego however, the pair will not be readily observable since they will be very close to the Sun, at a separation of only 15° from it.

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Mercury will be at mag -0.7, and Uranus at mag 5.9, both in the constellation Taurus.

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

A graph of the angular separation between Mercury and Uranus 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
Mercury 03h25m50s 17°06'N Taurus -0.7 5"6
Uranus 03h25m50s 18°27'N Taurus 5.9 3"4

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 16° from the Sun, which is in Taurus at this time of year.

The sky on 30 May 2024

The sky on 30 May 2024
Sunrise
05:39
Sunset
19:50
Twilight ends
21:29
Twilight begins
04:00

22-day old moon
Waning Crescent

40%

22 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 04:49 11:37 18:25
Venus 05:37 12:39 19:40
Moon 01:18 06:55 12:40
Mars 03:16 09:39 16:02
Jupiter 05:12 12:08 19:04
Saturn 01:47 07:34 13:20
All times shown in PDT.

Warning

Never attempt to point a pair of binoculars or a telescope at an object close to the Sun. Doing so may result in immediate and permanent blindness.

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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